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Good Bye, Lenin!, a huge hit in Germany and across Europe, may sound like sitcom stuff, a wacky mistaken-identity plot inflated to national dimensions. In fact, as handled with expert tenderness by director and co-writer Wolfgang Becker, the trope works splendidly as both political metaphor and love story. If some Iraqis can look back with a twisted longing on the more orderly days of Saddam's rule, why can't East Germans get a little misty over the Honecker regime? As they do. It's called Ostalgie, or Eastalgia. The film taps the universal suspicion that whatever...
...make art-house movies for international juries instead of more popular crowd pleasers - which could hurt the popularity of German film back home. Last year the market share for local films in local cinemas rose to 17.5% (up from 11.9% in 2002) thanks mainly to the hits Good Bye Lenin! and The Miracle of Bern. "The problem is that we in Europe see film as a cultural product and not as a commercial product," he says. "That limits mass appeal of a film and that's why people don't go to the cinema." Will these bills make a difference...
...Royal Shakespeare Company, the troupe that helped him fall in love with drama. The stage veteran surged into film with the title role in - and Best Actor Oscar for - Gandhi. Since then, his role choices have reflected a love for the big character. He has played Moses, Lenin, Simon Wiesenthal and Anne Frank's father Otto in TV movies, and won two Oscar nods for playing gangsters - Meyer Lansky in Bugsy (1991) and, a decade later, Sexy Beast's Don Logan, the Cockney-accented human incarnation of rage. "It is archetypes that I drift toward as an actor," Kingsley says...
...present day. Ted and Sasha watch the triumph of the cold war--a triumph for which they mortgaged much of their lives--being squandered by corporate cowboys and callow compromisers. "You think the war's over because a bunch of old Nazis in East Germany have traded Lenin for Coca-Cola?" Sasha demands of Ted in one of his bravura harangues. "Do you really believe that American capitalism will make the world a sweet safe place? It will pick it dry." The novel comes to a head in the present day with the two friends attempting a final, desperate gambit...
...detected the bloody Jewish hand behind Soviet communism in his infamous 1920s tract, The International Jew, which reads like an American version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; and finally, those Jews who were prominent leaders of the Bolshevik takeover: Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev. Never mind that Lenin, the real Mr. Big, was no more Jewish than Hohmann. Never mind that thousands of Jewish communists were purged and murdered by Stalin. The Jews had done it, and now to Hohmann's dialectical somersault: Of course, this verdict "may sound horrible," he mused, but after all, isn't this precisely...