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...film centers on the experience of young East Berliner Alex Kerner, played by wide-eyed 24-year-old Daniel Brühl. After fainting during the Berlin riots, Alex’s mother (Katrin Sass) enters a deep coma for several months. As she recovers slowly, Alex enters into a relationship with her nurse Lara (Chulpan Khamatova), a humbly beautiful and patient woman. Upon his mother’s release, the doctor cautions Alex that he must insulate her from any shocks, because a stressful event could kill her. Since his mother was fiercely loyal to the idealism...
...university student in 1974 and was a frequent visitor to the East. "I knew the city, I knew the people there and I knew how it felt," he says. Much of the film's humor derives from the increasingly desperate attempts by the son, Alex (Daniel Brühl), to convince his mother that life goes on as before. Since he won't tell her about the historic changes in the country, he must scour the city for East German food products, which have been replaced by better Western goods. He is so desperate that he collects old East German...