Goodbye Lenin

[Мастер]

I saw this film years ago, and then bought a DVD copy a few months back. It's about an East Berlin family, set mostly during 1989-1990, the period which saw the end of East Germany. (Well, the end of the East German state. The land and the people are still there.) Highly comedic elements, but also a very dark and depressing side to this film.

Popped it into the machine on Friday, without even thinking that Friday was the 24th anniversary of the end of the DDR. I finally realised the significance of the date I had chosen to watch it, near the end of the film, as there is a specific reference to the date therein.

I went to Berlin for the first, and so far, only time in my life a few months back. Watching it after having been to Berlin makes it a rather different experience. I'm not sure, but I think I might actually have caught a glimpse of the hotel I stayed in at one point.

So bye bye DDR, I never got to know you in person, but sometimes I feel like I did, just a little bit.

[Arneb]

You didn't miss anything worth the while.

[Heid the Ba]

I haven't seen it but I should. My first trip to Berlin was in 1999 to see the Scottish Claymores play the Berlin Thnunder in the first game Berlin played. I was there again in 2011, as I have said several time sit is one of my favourite cities.

[tubeswell]

I recall learning deustch zu sprechen im hochschule during the era of the DDR and the other DR. About as close as I got to visiting it.

[Heid the Ba]

The "other DR" was known, outwith Germany at least as the FRG.

[Мастер]

The "other DR" was known, outwith Germany at least as the FRG.

Well, it was an "RD", not a "DR" :)

My best attempt at a literal translation:

DDR - German Democratic Republic
BRD - Federal Republic of Germany (consistent with your "FRG" above)