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Barbara

2012

Christian Petzold

Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Jasna Fritzi Bauer ...

6.4

3,356

Drama East Germany. Barbara has requested a departure permit. It is the summer of 1980. She is a physician and is transferred, for disciplinary reasons, to a small hospital far away from everything in a provincial backwater. Her lover, a foreign trade employee at Mannesmann that she met on a spring night in East Berlin, is working on her escape. She does not care about anything around her: the patients, her colleagues, the neighbours, the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Philip Wilding Empire	"Tough and tender, it's the best Iron Curtain drama since The Lives Of Others. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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