Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to Wolfgang Becker’s hit German film, “Good bye, Lenin!” The film, which debuted this year at the Berlinale, was a box-office hit in Germany ...
Living under communist rule required a certain suspension of reality. Citizens in East Germany and the Soviet Union had to simultaneously believe that life under their systems was progressing even as ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wolfgang Becker, film director, speaks during an interview in his studio. Carsten Koall/dpa Wolfgang Becker, the director of the ...
Germany's not a country renowned for its sense of humor, so the pragmatic whimsy that rises from director Wolfgang Becker's affectionate but prickly serio-comedy "Good Bye, Lenin!" comes as a bracing ...
Wolfgang Becker, the German filmmaker whose reunification comedy Good Bye, Lenin! was a worldwide hit and made a star out of the then-unknown young actor Daniel Brühl, has died. He was 70. Becker’s ...