Good Bye, Lenin!

Good Bye, Lenin! Movie Poster Country Germany Directed by Wolfgang Becker Release Date February 13, 2003 Language German Distributor X Verleih AG Main Cast Character Actor Alexander Kerner Daniel Brühl Christiane Kerner Katrin Sass Ariane Kerner Maria Simon Lara Tschulpan Chamatowa Denis Florian Lukas

Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German movie directed by Wolfgang Becker. East Berlin, summer 1990: Shortly before the end of the GDR committed Christianist Kerner falls into a coma because she watches as her son Alexander is arrested during an anti-GDR demonstration. When she wakes up after the fall of the wall, she must be spared. In order not to upset her, the family tries to simulate the no longer existing state in the flat. The task, however, proves to be a difficult mission.

The following weapons were used in the film Good Bye, Lenin!:

Rifles

SKS

East-German NVA soldiers of the Friedrich Engels Guard Regiment can be seen performing the changing of the guard in front of the Neue Wache building with SKS rifles.

Russian Simonov Type 45 aka the Russian SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The East-German variant has a slot cut in the stock for the sling.

NVA soldiers doing the ceremony.

Karabiner 98k

One of the NVA soldiers shoulders a Karabiner 98k which is not correct for the Regiment. The Kar98k is still used by the Wachbataillon of the Bundeswehr during the ceremony.

Karabiner 98k - German manufacture 1937 date - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The officer (Hartmut Kuley) with his carbine.

Other

Holster

Volkspolizei officers and border guards are seen with holsters for Makarov PM pistols. No way to tell that the pistols are inside.

Volkspolisten with their holsters.

"At the beginning of June 1990, the borders of our German democratic republic were no longer worth anything."
Alex (Daniel Brühl) shows his passport to a border guard with which a picture is taken. Note the holster on the left.

Footage

During footage of the introduction of the D-Mark, an officer holds a MPi-KMS-72

East German MPi-KMS-72 with sling and side-folding stock - 7.62x39mm

The officer guards the money with his MPi.