Barbara
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In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre. Instead, Barbara snatches moments with her lover as she secretly prepares to defect one day. Despite her plans, Barbara learns more about her life that puts her desires and the people around ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Barbara:

Nina Hoss
Ronald Zehrfeld
Rainer Bock
Christina Hecke
Claudia Geisler-Bading
Peter Weiss

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In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre. Instead, Barbara snatches moments with her lover as she secretly prepares to defect one day. Despite her plans, Barbara learns more about her life that puts her desires and the people around her in a new light. With her changing perspective, Barbara finds herself facing a painful moral dilemma that forces her to choose what she values.

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Film Journal International - 10/10 by Rex RobertsAn intimate meditation on freedom set in East Germany at the end of the Cold War, but this time, it's personal.
The New York Times - 10/10 by Manohla DargisBarbara is a film about the old Germany from one of the best directors working in the new: Christian Petzold. For more than a decade Mr. Petzold has been making his mark on the international cinema scene with smart, tense films that resemble psychological thrillers, but are distinguished by their strange story turns, moral thorns, visual beauty and filmmaking intelligence.
Indiewire - 10/10 by Eric KohnThe movie's stakes are alternately personal and political, but Petzold's skill truly comes into focus in the tense climax, when those two aims come together with a powerful act of defiance.
Newsday - 10/10 by John AndersonA sturdy suspense story, set in Stasi-infected East Germany, rich in moral compromise, individual integrity and general desperation, it's elevated by Hoss to something sublime and unforgettable ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/10 by Steven ReaHoss, wearing her blond hair pulled back tight, and wearing an expression of inscrutable melancholy, gives a performance that doesn't feel like a performance at all.
New York Post - 10/10 by Farran Smith NehmePetzold raises questions of honor and builds the romance with an absolutely rigorous lack of sentiment, moving Barbara to a sweeping finish as emotionally satisfying as any this year.
Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Sheila O MalleyPetzold is a master at creating the kind of tension that can be felt on a subterranean level, a sort of acute uneasiness that can't be easily diagnosed, fixed, or even acknowledged by the characters. This is well-trod ground for Petzold, but never has it been so fully realized, so palpable, as in Barbara.
One Guy's Opinion - 9/10 by Frank SwietekBoth insightful and poignant, but not mawkish...an intriguing character study set against the backdrop of a dark time in history.
Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Sheila O'MalleyThis is well-trod ground for Petzold, but never has it been so fully realized, so palpable, as in "Barbara."
Village Voice - 9/10 by Melissa AndersonA transfixing Cold War thriller set in the East Germany of 1980, Christian Petzold's superb Barbara is made even more vivid by its subtle overlay of the golden-era "woman's picture," the woman in question being Dr. Barbara Wolff, brilliantly played by Nina Hoss in her fifth film with the writer-director.

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