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.
Release Date Barbara Dec 21, 2012 Limited
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Actors For Barbara

Nina Hoss,Ronald Zehrfeld,Rainer Bock,Christina Hecke,Claudia Geisler,Peter Weiss,Carolin Haupt,Deniz Petzold,Rosa Enskat,Jasna Fritzi Bauer,Peer-Uwe Teska,Elisabeth Lehmann,Mark Waschke,Peter Benedict,Thomas Neumann,Anette Daugardt,Thomas Bading,Susanne Bormann,Jannik Schümann,Alicia von Rittberg

Genres Barbara : Art House & International,Drama

Visitor Ranting & Critics For Barbara

User Ranting Barbara : 3.7
User Percentage For Barbara : 77 %
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All Critics Ranting For Barbara : 7.7
All Critics Count For Barbara : 71
All Critics Percentage For Barbara : 93 %

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Movie Overview For Barbara
Summer, 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has applied for an exit visa from the GDR (East Germany). Now, as punishment, she has been transferred from Berlin to a small hospital out in the country, far from everything. JÃ¶rg, her lover from the West, is already planning her escape. Barbara waits, keeping to herself. The new apartment, the neighbors, summertime, the countryside â€" none of that means anything to her. Working as a pediatric surgeon under her new boss Andre, she is attentive when it comes to the patients, but quite distanced toward her colleagues. Her future, she feels, will begin later. But Andre confuses her. His confidence in her professional abilities, his caring attitude, his smile. Why does he cover for her when she helps the young runaway Sarah? Does he have an assignment to keep track of her? Is he in love? But as the day of her planned escape quickly approaches, Barbara starts to lose control. Over herself, her plans, over love.

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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

Though the film runs a mere 105 minutes, it weighs on viewers like an eternity.
Colin Covert-Minneapolis Star Tribune

The movie examines the possibility of maintaining one's humanity in a truly oppressive society.
Walter V. Addiego-San Francisco Chronicle

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

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

This is well-trod ground for Petzold, but never has it been so fully realized, so palpable, as in "Barbara."
Sheila O'Malley-Chicago Sun-Times

Barbara offers us historically motivated immorality offset by some heartfelt sensitivity, a side order of depression, and finishes off with some ennobling hope. It's definitely one of the best foreign films of the year.
Elias Savada-Film Threat

This is a remarkably subtle movie, spending most of its energy zeroing in on the clenched face of its heroine, looking for cracks.
Jeffrey M. Anderson-Combustible Celluloid

A low-key, tenuous romance characterised by its sparse, deliberately paced storytelling.
Aaron Yap-Flicks.co.nz

A quietly absorbing character study.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Isn't a tightly wound story of sacrifice, yet its distance is alluring, retaining secrets and motivations, building to a satisfying conclusion.
Brian Orndorf-Blu-ray.com

An intelligent, mature love triangle...It also functions as a tense, rarefied thriller about escape from a police state, as well the kind of medical procedural drama audiences gorge upon.
Richard von Busack-MetroActive

That sense of nervous dislocation that the viewer feels in the first few scenes - Where am I? Who is this person? Is she friend or foe? - efficently evokes the muted terror that its characters feel.
Rob Thomas-Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Petzold renders Communist oppression in a provocatively muted manner.
Ben Kenigsberg-Time Out Chicago

Stories of characters like Barbara continue to have meaning, even in a "free" society.
Kelly Vance-East Bay Express

Engrossing Cold War thriller and love story set in East Germany in 1980.
Dennis Schwartz-Ozus' World Movie Reviews

In short, the failures in storytelling detract from the film, despite its sensitivities, its subtleties and its final payoff of personal sacrifice.
Andrew L. Urban-Urban Cinefile

A meticulously crafted drama in which the depiction of character, place and circumstance evolves slowly and with intrigue, Barbara is gripping cinema
Louise Keller-Urban Cinefile

This well acted political melodrama, set during the Cold War, is Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Emanuel Levy-EmanuelLevy.Com

Hoss' outstanding performance is a deep well of subtle yet unmistakable motives and reactions.
Jeff Meyers-Metro Times (Detroit, MI)