This is the story of a socialist mother in East Germany who falls into coma while watching a demonstration in October 1989 and waking up eight months later. In the meantime the German Democratic Republic and everything which was typical for it has ceased to exist. To not endanger her life, her son fools her into believing the old GDR still exists.
Good idea, but the filmmakers couldn't decide whether to make this a comedy or a drama. The result is, at times it is quite funny, but overall - hmmm - I would not consider it boring, but I didn't find it exciting either. On TV it would have been okay, but not on the big screen.
It was quite interesting though to see the differences which had existed between East and West Germany and how everything has changed in East Germany after the reunification.
It was also fun to see to what lengths the caring son goes to explain to his mother all those changes during the reunification which he could not hide from her (like advertisement, fugitives in the Prague embassy, West European cars in the streets...) to make her believe she still lives in the German Democratic Republic. He even fakes the news on TV.
But at times, especially near the end, the pacing is too slow and after a while there are no new ideas left. They could easily have cut it by 10 minutes.
Good idea, but the filmmakers couldn't decide whether to make this a comedy or a drama. The result is, at times it is quite funny, but overall - hmmm - I would not consider it boring, but I didn't find it exciting either. On TV it would have been okay, but not on the big screen.
It was quite interesting though to see the differences which had existed between East and West Germany and how everything has changed in East Germany after the reunification.
It was also fun to see to what lengths the caring son goes to explain to his mother all those changes during the reunification which he could not hide from her (like advertisement, fugitives in the Prague embassy, West European cars in the streets...) to make her believe she still lives in the German Democratic Republic. He even fakes the news on TV.
But at times, especially near the end, the pacing is too slow and after a while there are no new ideas left. They could easily have cut it by 10 minutes.