The idea is simple. Tell some lies to keep from the mother finding out that the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall have crumbled into dust.
Wolfgang Becker directs this German comedy through the veil of a fairytale gone wrong. Starting off with the authorities cracking everything from ceramics to the head of young and disillusioned Alexander to the spirit of Christiane.
On meeting "the last angelic student nurse of the USSR" the lives of Alex, Lara, Ariane, Rainer and every other soul in the former GDR start to twist and turn with the invisible hand of meeting new people, heightened emotions and the market.
Soon becoming the person he least wants to be, Alex starts to create news and facts with his satellite tv colleague, an aspiring movie director from the west, become just like those that used to control and march past his apartment block. A fine piece of political satire and comedy.
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