Barbara

This wise and incisively crafted drama brings simmering intelligence and a dry, sardonic compassion to bear.
-- Justin Chang, Variety

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Barbara

Winner of the Best Director prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival, the latest film from Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow) is a simmering, impeccably crafted Cold War thriller, starring the gifted Nina Hoss -- in her fifth lead role for the director -- as a Berlin doctor banished to a rural East German hospital as punishment for applying for an exit visa. As her lover from the West carefully plots her escape, Barbara waits patiently and avoids friendships with her colleagues-except for Andre (Ronald Zehrfeld) the hospital's head physician, who is warmly attentive to her. But even as she finds herself falling for him, Barbara still cannot be sure that Andre is not a spy. As her defensive wall slowly starts to crumble, she is eventually forced to make a profound decision about her future. A film of glancing moments and dangerous secrets, BARBARA paints a haunting picture of a woman being slowly crushed between the irreconcilable needs of desire and survival. Germany's official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.
PG-13
Genre
Drama
Runtime
105
Language
German
Director
Christian Petzold
Cast
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Mark Waschke, Rainer Bock
FEATURED REVIEW
Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter

A slow-burning Cold War drama that will reward patient viewers with its ultimate emotional payoff, Barbara reps a skillfully mannered, meticulously acted Berlin Competition entry from homeland writer-director Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow). Set in a secluded East German village during the ...

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