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Director: Wolfgang Becker

Producer: X Filme Creative Pool, WDR, arte

Executive Producer: Stefan Arndt, Katja De Bock, Andreas Schreitmüller

Writer: Bernd Lichtenberg, Wolfgang Becker

Cast: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon

Genres: Drama


118 min

October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany - and this is precisely what happens to Alex's mother, an activist for social progress in socialist East Germany. Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later. Her heart is so weak that any shock might kill her. To save his mother, Alex transforms the family apartment into an island of the past where his mother is lovingly duped into believing that nothing has changed. What begins as a little white lie gets more and more out of hand as Alex's mother, who feels better every day, wants to watch TV and even leaves her bed one day...