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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.
Director:
,
Christian Petzold
Cast:
,
Nina Hoss
,
Claudia Geisler-Bading
,
Peter Weiß
,
Mark Waschke
,
Ronald Zehrfeld
,
Rainer Bock
,
Peter Benedict
,
Jasna Fritzi Bauer
,
Deniz Petzold
,
Christina Hecke

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Details

Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
105 min
Release date:
8 Mar 2012
Country:
DE
Languages:
German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$6,889,185
Awards:
10 wins & 21 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The occasional ravings of the patients, ringing off the walls in Petzold's measured quiet, provide an appropriate backdrop to the heroine's need for freedom, yet the movie's politics never trump its humanity.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
7 Mar 2013
fresh:
Hoss, 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.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
8 Mar 2013
fresh:
The movie examines the possibility of maintaining one's humanity in a truly oppressive society.
– Walter V. Addiego,
San Francisco Chronicle,
8 Mar 2013
rotten:
Though the film runs a mere 105 minutes, it weighs on viewers like an eternity.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
21 Mar 2013
fresh:
It persuades us early on that its aura of political tension and suspicion, its taciturnity, its very strictness of silent observation as it begins, are fostering an intelligent thriller.
– Stanley Kauffmann,
The New Republic,
17 Jun 2013
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