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Barbara is a film about a physician who tries to escape from East Germany in 1980, while working at a rural hospital and falling in love with a colleague. The film won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Mar 8, 2012 · A doctor from Berlin is banished to a small hospital in Mecklenburg and falls in love with a local doctor who is an informer. She also tries to escape to the West with her West German boyfriend, but faces dangers and dilemmas in the repressive regime.
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- Drama
- Christian Petzold
- 2012-03-08
Set in 1980, director Christian Petzold's latest work centres on a doctor (Nina Hoss) exiled to a small town from East Berlin as punishment for applying for ...
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- Madman Films
Barbara is a 1980s East German doctor who is banished to a country clinic for trying to leave the country. She faces a moral dilemma when she meets a pregnant patient who wants to escape and her lover who is a Stasi informant.
Sep 6, 2012 · Watch Barbara (2012) Trailer on The Match Factory Summer, 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has applied for an exit visa from the GDR (East Germany). Now, as punishme...
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- The Match Factory
Barbara (English Subtitled) In East Germany in 1980, Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country.