As an American who has lived his entire adult life in Germany, I can tell you that a particularly favorite film of former East Germans is the movie Good Bye Lenin!
Taking the plot from Wikipedea... (see below the fold)
The film is set in East Berlin in 1989-1990. Alexander Kerner lives with his mother Christiane and sister Ariane in a small apartment. His father has fled to the West, apparently abandoning the family. In his absence, Alex's mother has become an ardent idealist and supporter of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany. When she sees Alex being arrested in an anti-government demonstration, she suffers a near-fatal heart attack and falls into a coma. Shortly afterward, the Berlin Wall falls. After eight months, she awakes but is severely weakened both physically and mentally. Her doctor says that any shock might cause another, possibly fatal, attack. Alex realizes that the discovery of recent events would be too much for her to bear, and so sets out to maintain the illusion that things are as normal in the German Democratic Republic. To this end, he and Ariane return the previous drab decor to the apartment, dress in their old clothes, and feed the bed-ridden Christiane new Western produce from old-labeled jars. Their deception is successful, albeit increasingly complicated and elaborate. Christiane occasionally witnesses strange occurrences, such as a gigantic Coca-Cola advertisement banner unfurling on a building outside the apartment. With his friend, a would-be filmmaker, Alex edits old tapes of East German news broadcasts and creates fake special reports on TV to explain these odd events away. Since the old news shows were fairly predictable, and Christiane's memory is a bit hazy, she is initially fooled.
Wouldn't it be great to create a film based on the above plot, whereby some racist dad, for example, falls into a coma and then wakes up just after Obama is elected. Afterwards, the family try to hide it from him until he's recovered.