Wolfgang Becker, ‘Good Bye, Lenin!’ Director, Dies at 70 His German comedy about the fall of the Berlin Wall was a global hit and made Daniel Brühl a star.

However, there's one genre they always seem to ignore in their overviews: comedy. The late '70s/early '80s is, in my humble opinion, the greatest comedic era in moviemaking history.

The years between the end of World War I and the rise of Hitler were tough times for the German people as they were ...