Dir Wolfgang Becker Germany 2003 121 mins

With Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, Florian Lukas

This German comedy stands as one of the European classics of this century. It is the delightful account of a consequence of the Fall of the Wall in 1990. Alex tries to protect his mother from the shock that the old order is over as she awakens from a coma. The film shot Daniel Bruhl to international stardom and went some way to changing the image of the serious German.