The Goethe Institut hosts a free screening of the critically-acclaimed 2003 film <em>Goodbye Lenin</em>, one of the most successful German films of all time<br /> <br /> The film is set in East Berlin in 1989 just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Alex Kerner (played by Daniel Brühl) constructs an elaborate alternative life for his fiercely communist mother who has just recovered from a coma and consequently is unaware that communist East Germany is no more. Warned by doctors that any sudden shocks could trigger a fatal heart attack and potentially kill his mother, Kerner takes it upon himself to protect her by creating the now defunct DDR in their East Berlin apartment, with hilarious consequences. <br /> <br /> To attend the free screening RSVP to <a href="mailto:bso@johannesburg.goethe.org">bso@johannesburg.goethe.org</a>