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FILMS Germany

"Lenin" wins Golden Screen

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Following its success at this year’s Berlinale and “Lola” triumph, Wolfgang Becker’s feature film, Goodbye, Lenin! [+see also:
trailer
interview: Wolfgang Becker
film profile
]
continues its unprecedented run of success- The comedy won the German film and theatre critics’ “gold and diamond screen” award. On 1 August, Goodbye Lenin! also opened the new open air season of screenings at the Waldbuhne cinema in Berlin. To date, some 65 territories have picked up this title. The film was a huge hit in Israel and is likely to be the most successful Teutonic title ever released in the United Kingdom. Goodbye Lenin! is scheduled for release in France on 10 September.
Producers Warner Homevideo are releasing a DVD package that includes an hour’s worth of backstage footage and an interview with the director on 18 September and this will be followed by a Deluxe version in December.

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