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** This gets a gag in one scene, which shows a (real) headline from the fall of the Wall saying, ''Mach's gut, Deutschland!'' ("Goodbye, Germany!")
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* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: And how it affected some people more than others- TV repairman Alex fairly quickly finds a better job as a satellite dish installer while his sister, finding her pursuit of a degree in Marxist-Leninist economics suddenly obsolete, winds up working at Burger King and several neighbors in their 50s are unemployed with no prospects.
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prospects. Even East German cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn ends up a cab driver after the fall of communism.
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* TheUnreveal: Just who is that cabbie?cabbie? [[note]]Very unlikely to be the real Sigmund Jähn, who by then was already working as a freelance consultant for the German Aerospace Centre or DLR. [[/note]]
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* TheFutureIsShocking: A variation occurs (no actual time travel, but EastGermany was in a sort of stasis) -- after the Berlin Wall falls, the protagonist goes to see WestGermany and instantly encounters a TV with porn on.
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* EndOfAnAge: As indicated by the title, the end of communism in Europe.
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* PopculturalOsmosisFailure - Denis shows Alex the wedding video he has edited in the style of ''{{2001: ''[[ASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey}}''.Odyssey]]''. Alex does not get the reference - having never seen the original film.
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** WordOfGod is that Ariane works at Burger King because they were much easier to work with in terms of filming and use of trade dress than [=McDonald's=].
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* ShoutOut: A subtle but important anachronism: Alex's partner-in-fake-newscasts Denis Domaschke is seen several times wearing a T-shirt from ''TheMatrix'', another movie about an artificial re-creation of a real world that no longer exists.
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* ShoutOut: A subtle but important anachronism: Alex's partner-in-fake-newscasts Denis Domaschke is seen several times wearing a T-shirt from ''TheMatrix'', ''Film/TheMatrix'', another movie about an artificial re-creation of a real world that no longer exists.
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* InTheOriginalKlingon: One of the fake newscasts claims that proof has been discovered to demonstrate that Coca-Cola was invented in East Germany.
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Shortly before the fall of the Berlin wall, the young East German Alexander Kerner's dedicated Communist mother sees her son in an anti-government demonstration and falls into a coma. When she awakens six eight months later, the doctors tell Alexander that his mother can not cannot abide a new shock. Alexander therefore orchestrates an elaborate ruse, complete with fake television programs, to keep his bed-ridden mother from finding out that the GDR is gone.
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** It's only anachronistic in the final cut of the movie: a deleted scene expains that Denis has an idea for a film that is essentially exactly the same as The Matrix, which is why he's wearing that shirt.
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* [=~It's All Junk~=]: Played with. The old, East German furniture that they threw out turns out to be [[spoiler:the hiding place of their life savings]]. Later, [[spoiler:the money is worthless because the family missed the cut-off to exchange them for West German Marks]].
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** [[JoSsed Actually]], that's a leftover from a deleted scene in which it turns out that he is the one who had the idea for that movie.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: While in the context of the plot it is a potentially highly dangerous and traumatic moment, the scene in which Alex' mother goes outside for the first time is the most powerful moment of the movie. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kehu8QBHCCk And then comes the chopper carrying away the Lenin statue, that stretches out its arm to her one last time]]. It's both hilarious and very sad.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The fake news segment about Coca-Cola.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: During [[spoiler:'President' Jähn]]'s address to the nation, the national anthem of East Germany plays in the background, and then swells to a crescendo as the scene shifts [[spoiler:to the Reunification celebrations]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The fake news segment about Coca-Cola.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: During [[spoiler:'President' Jähn]]'s address to the nation, the national anthem of East Germany plays in the background, and then swells to a crescendo as the scene shifts [[spoiler:to the Reunification celebrations]].
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"The GDR survives - on 79 square meters!"
Shortly before the fall of the Berlin wall, the young East German Alexander Kerner's dedicated Communist mother sees her son in an anti-government demonstration and falls into a coma. When she awakens six months later, the doctors tell Alexander that his mother can not abide a new shock. Alexander therefore orchestrates an elaborate ruse, complete with fake television programs, to keep his bed-ridden mother from finding out that the GDR is gone.
German bittersweet comedy from 2003, with a lot of subtle humor, playing on the feeling of shell-shock many East Germans felt upon being catapulted into the Capitalist world and the almost overnight disappearance of their country. Many of the visual clues might be easy to miss for people not familiar with the common cliches about the GDR (of which many were in fact TruthInTelevision).
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!!This Film Provides Examples Of:
* TheAllegedCar: The family's acquisition of a Trabant after "just" 3 years' wait- a sky-blue wagon, no less- is a plot point.
* AlternateHistory: An elaborate alternate history where East Germany ends up dominant over West Germany is created to hide the truth.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: While in the context of the plot it is a potentially highly dangerous and traumatic moment, the scene in which Alex' mother goes outside for the first time is the most powerful moment of the movie. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kehu8QBHCCk And then comes the chopper carrying away the Lenin statue, that stretches out its arm to her one last time]]. It's both hilarious and very sad.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The fake news segment about Coca-Cola.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: During [[spoiler:'President' Jähn]]'s address to the nation, the national anthem of East Germany plays in the background, and then swells to a crescendo as the scene shifts [[spoiler:to the Reunification celebrations]].
* CommieLand: Or rather, the transition from this.
* {{Dacha}}
* FawltyTowersPlot: "Don't mention the Wall!"
* TheDriver: The cab driver who may or may not have been Sigmund Jähn.
* GermanHumor: Lots of it in the narration, not all picked up by the subtitles.
* [=~It's All Junk~=]: Played with. The old, East German furniture that they threw out turns out to be [[spoiler:the hiding place of their life savings]]. Later, [[spoiler:the money is worthless because the family missed the cut-off to exchange them for West German Marks]].
* LetThemDieHappy: Sort of (but not exactly in the way Alexander intends).
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The entire plot is based on locking Alex' mother out of the loop. [[spoiler:Later, it's Alex that has to be locked out of the loop, and slightly before that we discover that Alex and his sister were locked out of the loop for over a decade by their mother.]]
* MaintainTheLie
* OutdatedOutfit: Played with. To keep the ruse going, it is required for any guests to take off their Capitalist Germany clothes and replace them with Communist Germany {{Outdated Outfit}}s.
* PresentDayPast: Some of the western brand products are in current rather than circa-1990 packaging.
* ProductPlacement: Essential to the story; particularly well-handled when the big red banner being lowered on the building across Karl-Marx-Allee from mom's bedroom window turns out to be [[spoiler: a Coca-Cola ad]].
* ShoutOut: A subtle but important anachronism: Alex's partner-in-fake-newscasts Denis Domaschke is seen several times wearing a T-shirt from ''TheMatrix'', another movie about an artificial re-creation of a real world that no longer exists.
** [[JoSsed Actually]], that's a leftover from a deleted scene in which it turns out that he is the one who had the idea for that movie.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp
* TitleDrop: Of the rare visual kind in the mentioned statue scene.
* WhyWereBummedCommunismFell: And how it affected some people more than others- TV repairman Alex fairly quickly finds a better job as a satellite dish installer while his sister, finding her pursuit of a degree in Marxist-Leninist economics suddenly obsolete, winds up working at Burger King and several neighbors in their 50s are unemployed with no prospects.
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Shortly before the fall of the Berlin wall, the young East German Alexander Kerner's dedicated Communist mother sees her son in an anti-government demonstration and falls into a coma. When she awakens six months later, the doctors tell Alexander that his mother can not abide a new shock. Alexander therefore orchestrates an elaborate ruse, complete with fake television programs, to keep his bed-ridden mother from finding out that the GDR is gone.
German bittersweet comedy from 2003, with a lot of subtle humor, playing on the feeling of shell-shock many East Germans felt upon being catapulted into the Capitalist world and the almost overnight disappearance of their country. Many of the visual clues might be easy to miss for people not familiar with the common cliches about the GDR (of which many were in fact TruthInTelevision).
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!!This Film Provides Examples Of:
* TheAllegedCar: The family's acquisition of a Trabant after "just" 3 years' wait- a sky-blue wagon, no less- is a plot point.
* AlternateHistory: An elaborate alternate history where East Germany ends up dominant over West Germany is created to hide the truth.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: While in the context of the plot it is a potentially highly dangerous and traumatic moment, the scene in which Alex' mother goes outside for the first time is the most powerful moment of the movie. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kehu8QBHCCk And then comes the chopper carrying away the Lenin statue, that stretches out its arm to her one last time]]. It's both hilarious and very sad.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The fake news segment about Coca-Cola.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: During [[spoiler:'President' Jähn]]'s address to the nation, the national anthem of East Germany plays in the background, and then swells to a crescendo as the scene shifts [[spoiler:to the Reunification celebrations]].
* CommieLand: Or rather, the transition from this.
* {{Dacha}}
* FawltyTowersPlot: "Don't mention the Wall!"
* TheDriver: The cab driver who may or may not have been Sigmund Jähn.
* GermanHumor: Lots of it in the narration, not all picked up by the subtitles.
* [=~It's All Junk~=]: Played with. The old, East German furniture that they threw out turns out to be [[spoiler:the hiding place of their life savings]]. Later, [[spoiler:the money is worthless because the family missed the cut-off to exchange them for West German Marks]].
* LetThemDieHappy: Sort of (but not exactly in the way Alexander intends).
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The entire plot is based on locking Alex' mother out of the loop. [[spoiler:Later, it's Alex that has to be locked out of the loop, and slightly before that we discover that Alex and his sister were locked out of the loop for over a decade by their mother.]]
* MaintainTheLie
* OutdatedOutfit: Played with. To keep the ruse going, it is required for any guests to take off their Capitalist Germany clothes and replace them with Communist Germany {{Outdated Outfit}}s.
* PresentDayPast: Some of the western brand products are in current rather than circa-1990 packaging.
* ProductPlacement: Essential to the story; particularly well-handled when the big red banner being lowered on the building across Karl-Marx-Allee from mom's bedroom window turns out to be [[spoiler: a Coca-Cola ad]].
* ShoutOut: A subtle but important anachronism: Alex's partner-in-fake-newscasts Denis Domaschke is seen several times wearing a T-shirt from ''TheMatrix'', another movie about an artificial re-creation of a real world that no longer exists.
** [[JoSsed Actually]], that's a leftover from a deleted scene in which it turns out that he is the one who had the idea for that movie.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp
* TitleDrop: Of the rare visual kind in the mentioned statue scene.
* WhyWereBummedCommunismFell: And how it affected some people more than others- TV repairman Alex fairly quickly finds a better job as a satellite dish installer while his sister, finding her pursuit of a degree in Marxist-Leninist economics suddenly obsolete, winds up working at Burger King and several neighbors in their 50s are unemployed with no prospects.
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