Question: A couple of years ago, I went with a class at school to see a German movie about a woman who had a heart attack and remained comatose during the fall of the Berlin Wall and during German reunification. When she awoke, her son pretended nothing had happened for fear that the shock would provoke another heart attack. I enjoyed this movie very much and would like to see it again but can't remember the title — do you have any idea?
Answer: You're describing Wolfgang Becker's 2003 Good Bye Lenin!, which put a satirical spin on the phenomenon of Ostalgie, a neologism that combines the German words for "nostalgia" and "East" to describe a retrospective longing for life under the communist regime. Ostalgie is so sufficiently widespread that an East German company has talked about building
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