Arts
'Lenin' makes unique statement on post-Soviet politics
By Mignon Lamia | May 13, 2004With a personal touch and a statement about life far beyond Socialist Germany, "Good Bye, Lenin," playing at the Nugget this week and slated to show at the Hopkins Center later this month, is one of few films documenting one of the most important political and geographic shifts in the past 25 years: the fall of the Berlin Wall. In East Germany in October 1989, the protests that would eventually lead to the toppling of the wall and the end of socialist party power have begun.