Good Bye, Lenin

Blog 10

This week the German Club presented movie was Good bye, Lenin.  I am sure the main character, Alex, who searched everywhere for products from the former East Germany for his sick mother would have enjoyed this website:

http://www.ossiversand.de/product_info.php?cPath=28_35&products_id=906&osCsid=2478b655ad6393980d89fab903fb030c

Though this is a very entertaining movie to watch with lots of comedy and German humor, there is also much to be learned about the culture near the end of the former DDR and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. 

Still, there is one point that I wonder about.  During the movie, there are only color televisions in the DDR.  Is that really true?  I through email correspondence with a couple of ‘Ossies’, I had the impression that most of the East German television sets were only black and white.