Wednesday 29th April 2009 at 8pm Cafe Amsterdam will show the award wining film Good Bye Lenin. The film is in German with English subtitles (121 mins).

We have gone later as the evenings are longer!

In a brief prologue Alexander Kerner, recalls how proud he was along with his countrymen when the first German to enter space, Sigmund Jähn, came from the East.

East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot...
 
This was the most successful German film since the 1950's and proved to be a worldwide hit with rave reviews and an awards list including Bafta's and Golden Globe's. The film shows much of the confusion that follows the collapse of communism in a intelligent and humoristic way. Many similarities can been drawn to Mongolia when it under went a similar change.

We have new opening times for the summer from Monday 4th May until earlier October 2009. 7am until 10pm