THE POLISH RIP VAN WINKLE
1. Rip Van Winkle lived inthe 1770s, He took a nap , and fell asleep. He woke up 20 years later to find himself a citizen ofthe United States of American
2. Similarly, in the movie Goodbye Lenin, Kathrin Sass, an East German woman, slips into a coma just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. When she wakes up eight months later, she is a member of a capitalist society. governments have tumbled, Her son, Alex, fears that the shock will lead to a heart attack. Alex protect her from the truth and to make her believe the world is the same as it used to be.
3. However, the story of Polish railway worker Jan Grzebski, 65, Grzebski went into a coma after he was hit by a train . He woke up 19 years later , into a world that had transformed itself from a Communist
5. At the time of the accident, Grzebski’s doctors didn’t give him long to live, but they were wrong. He survived thanks to the devoted care of his wife, Gertruda. She refused to believe the doctors and moved her husband’s body every hour to prevent bed sores. “It was Gertruda that saved me, and I’ll never forget it,” said Grzebski.
6. Now he’s getting to know his family, which has grown considerably since his accident. His four children are all married and have provided him with 11 grandchildren.