''Good Bye Lenin!'' is the original

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of the film of the same title starring

Daniel Brühl Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo (; born 16 June 1978) is a Spanish-German actor and filmmaker. He received his first German Film Award for Best Actor for his roles in '' Das Weisse Rauschen (The White Sound)'' (2001), ''Nichts ...

and

Katrin Sass Katrin Sass (, for a time Katrin Saß) is a German actress. She became known internationally for playing the idealistic socialist mother Christiane Kerner in the 2003 tragicomedy ''Good Bye, Lenin!'' Biography She was born in Schwerin, in th ...

. The music is composed by

Yann Tiersen Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French Breton musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and c ...

, with the exception of the non-instrumental version of "Summer 78" sung by

Claire Pichet Claire Pichet is a French soloist singer and musician. Biography Performances * Summer 78, soundtrack of ''Good Bye Lenin!'' *''The Dreamlife of Angels'', soundtrack. *'' Rue des Cascades'' *''Le Phare'' *La Rupture See also *Yann Tiers ...

. This album has been released with the

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protection system in some regions.

Analysis

Parts of the soundtrack are reminiscent of Yann Tiersen's best known film work, the '' soundtrack for Amélie'', which was in turn strongly influenced by French music. In fact, one of the songs on ''Amélie'', "Comptine d'un autre été : L'après-midi", was also used on ''Good bye, Lenin!'' during the scene of the family's first East-West Berlin outing, although it does not appear on the soundtrack album.

Reception

Track listing

All songs written by

Personnel

Adapted from album liner notes. * Noémie Airiau - Violin * Stéphane Avenas - Direction * Emmanuel Bacquet - Photography * Jean Noël Bériat - Double Bass * Laurent Bernard - Bassoon * Guillaume Bourgogne - Conductor * Marie Elsa Bretagne - Viola * Daniel Chambard - Tuba * Muriel Charbonnier - Violin * Myriam Constans - Oboe * Sylvie Dalmais - Violin * Sabine Dubosc - Cello * Dominique Eudeline - Flute * Marc Guérolt - Studio Assistant * Michel Herbaux - Trumpet * Conny Klein - Photography * Moïra Le Luron Kressmann - Violin * Nadia Kuentz - Violin * Martin Kukula - Photography * Valerie Delhomme Lavigne - Cello * Valérie Lewandowski - Piccolo * Sissie Lhoumeau - Violin * Annabelle Luis - Cello * Béatrice Meunier - Violin * Irène Nazarian - Violin * Pierre Perosino Gravallon - Vibraphone * Sophie Perrot - Violin *

- Vocals * Sylvie Pinsello - Violin * Dirk Plamböck - Photography * Didier Reymond - Bass Clarinet * Isabelle Reynaud - Violin * Geneviève Rigot - Viola * Isabelle Salelles - Violin * Anne Sophie Siméand - Viola * Lelia Stahl - Violin * Andro Steinborn - Music Coordinator *

- Composer * Pascal Torgue - Trombone * Céline Traversaz - Viola * Uliyana Vaccani - Viola * Anne Laure Verne - Violin * Jean Marie Verne - Double Bass * Pascale Verne - Violin * Emmanuel Villemaux - Violin

Charts

References

Yann Tiersen albums 2003 soundtrack albums EMI Records soundtracks Comedy film soundtracks {{soundtrack-stub