i miss this movie when it appear and and i saw it just lately and because i read some very enthusiastic review on it and and living in germany and i think one have to cope also to the local cinematographic up to date situation . well and i felt disappointed . i mean and i agree with the main point of the review and that be to say the extraordinary performance of hannelore elsner a the main character and a leninistic writer and smoke and sleep pill addict and who just after the fall of the wall decide to leave the capitalistic federal republic of germany and to move to the socialistic east berlin . but and of course and the wall be fall and she can not find herself anymore also in her dream on world . i be afraid that the main trouble with this movie be the uncapability to create a really living character and notwithstanding mrs. elsner effort and and the complete unconsistency of the secondary character ( like her boyfriend and or her son and or her former lover ) . besides and the screenplay have too many hole ( for instance and at the beginning she have all her furniture remove from her house in munich and because she be leave represent but where be she send them . ) represent i mean and we must not know any particular of the life of any character ( for instance and bresson do not care at all about it . ) and but it be difficult to sympathize with a character who only speak with slogan . and what about her outfit . what be they here for and just to present the woman a a relict from the 68 er revolt ( with a christian dior overcoat . ) . or be she a novel norma desmond wandering in her delirium . in that case and a more baroque scenery should have be more suitable . and and last but not least and the cinematography have annoy me represent i love black and white and but in this case it be that kind of arty black and white which remind me more of some madonna videoclips than of movie classic . so and i be begin to understand why german movie very seldom be export .