Good Bye Lenin!
2003
Ariane Kerner: You were in a coma. Eight months ago. Christiane Kerner: Eight months? What happened? Ariane Kerner: Yeah, it was... Alexander Kerner: It was in October, in the supermarket. There was this enormous queue and it was really hot and you just passed out. Christiane Kerner: In October? Alexander Kerner: It was a really hot October. At the time.
(last lines) (spoiler) Alexander Kerner: (voiceover) My mother outlived the GDR by three days. I believe it was a good thing she never learned the truth. She died happy. She wanted us to scatter her ashes to the winds. That's prohibited in Germany, both East and West. But we didn't care. (launches rocket) She's up there somewhere now. Maybe looking down at us. Maybe she sees us as tiny specks on the Earth's surface, just like Sigmund Jähn did back then. The country my mother left behind was a country she believed in; a country we kept alive till her last breath; a country that never existed in that form; a country that, in my memory, I will always associate with my mother.
Denis: Denis (handing Alex a video cassette) It's my best production ever. A pity your Mom will be the only audience.