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In 1988 Jan Grzebski was rendered profoundly unconscious after being hit by a train in his native Poland. He remained in his coma for nineteen years; during which time Communism fell, Poland elected Eastern Europe’s first post-Communist government and became a staunchly consumerist country.

In 2003, four years before Grzebski awoke, Wolfgang Becker and Bernd Lichtenberg presaged Grzebski’s awakening with the ostalgie film Good Bye Lenin!, in which a young man tries to protect his fragile mother who has just awoken from a coma from the shock of finding out that her beloved East Germany no longer exists.