Barbara

Barbara

  • Director: Christian Petzold
  • Writer: Christian Petzold,Harun Farocki
  • Countries of origin: Germany
  • Language: German
  • Release date: March 8, 2012
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Bárbara
  • "Barbara" is a German film released in 2012, written and directed by Christian Petzold , starring Nina Hoss and Zehrfeld .
    The film tells the story of Barbara, a female doctor who fled from GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany with the help of her boyfriend during the Cold War. 

    Details

    • Release date March 8, 2012
    • Filming locations Ahrenshoop, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
    • Production companies Schramm Film Koerner & Weber, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,013,902

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $63,410

    Gross worldwide

    $6,908,277

    Movie reviews

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    • By Dennis 2022-03-24 09:03:22

      The candle of noble humanity will never go out

      Browsing the movie online, the poster of this movie attracted me. This is the back of a woman with blond hair on her head and a blue-gray background. She felt that she must have an extraordinary story and couldn't help but explore.

      The story takes place in East Germany in 1980. In a remote town near the Baltic Sea, female doctor Barbara was sentenced for smuggling to West Germany and was exiled here after she was released from prison. Here she remains closely monitored, with police...

    • By Hilma 2022-03-24 09:03:22

      East German love

      "Barbara", this is a film about East Germany,
      I didn't know anything about this film before watching it. The opening scene struck me as bizarre: the doctor examining a child and talking to him softly. The doctors standing next to him, including the heroine Barbara, had heavy faces. I think it's very strange, what kind of hospital is this to be so indifferent to children?
      It soon became clear to me that this was East Germany under Soviet rule, and the seemingly normal relationship...

    • By Martine 2022-03-24 09:03:22

      German Engagement Project

      Babara ist eine Ärztin von Berlin. Sie hat in einer Land medizinische Klinik gearbeitet, weil sie nicht ein Ausreisevisum haben kann. Babara ist abgehoben und verkehrt mit nicht mit anderen Leute, weil sie mit ihrem Freund nach Dänemark fliehen wollte. Sie ist besonders vereist mit dem führenden Arzt Andre. Barbara wollte sich eines Tages absetzen, aber sie ist freundlich und warm mit ihren Patienten. Ein Mädchen genannt Stella bekommt Gehirnhautentzündung. Wegen der sorgfältigen Krankenpflege...

    • By Jess 2022-03-23 09:03:07

      love, freedom and humanity

      When I watched "Barbara", I only knew that it was a German film, but I didn't know that it was telling the story of the former East Germany era. However, not long after the film started, I accurately judged that this happened in the former East Germany area. It's not that I know Germany very well, in fact I haven't even been to this country. I can guess only because of the atmosphere in the film, which is too familiar to Chinese audiences and has been with us for many years. Yes, this smell is...

    • By Giuseppe 2022-03-23 09:03:07

      Maybe it's love

      After a woman tried to escape, she was closely monitored, and even humiliated, she had a perfect opportunity to escape again, but she gave up. Of course, there were many reasons, love, and her enthusiasm to help others. I find it very shocking that sometimes when you fail and are obstructed again and again, your rebellious psychology will actually be strengthened, and instead, you will keep developing in that direction, but barbara finally gave up and looked back. , In fact, as long as she...

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    • By Earl 2023-08-07 00:07:04

      Three-and-a-half stars... There is a warm humanity in a cold...

    • By Haylee 2023-07-14 23:15:59

      Under the system, everything is...

    • By Meggie 2023-07-09 06:55:03

      This is probably my favorite of the two German movies. There is nothing concrete in the film, only the background can be understood from the details. The director is not in a hurry, and you can tell you when this story happened and why it...

    • By Bailee 2023-07-03 11:18:01

      The director is the backbone of the Berlin School, the narrative in the literary film is strong, and the ending is very...

    • By Garnett 2023-06-21 16:58:11

      Although the core image of the Berlin Wall runs through the whole film, it has never been embodied. In the shadow of self-evident horror, Barbara's psychological choice is the biggest space for graffiti. The flight to West Germany was finally suspended, but humanitarianism, warm humanity, all returned, restating the definition of freedom east of the Iron Curtain. This is the narrative of the German nation, and there are undercurrents in the historical...

    Movie plot

    In the German Democratic Republic in 1980, a female doctor named Barbara was planning to emigrate overseas-without a doubt, the country she was going to was the Federal Republic of Germany, which is West Germany. Because of this idea, she was punished more by the local government, and she was "delegated" from the hospital in the capital to a rural health clinic. And her lover, who is far away in West Germany, is helping her plan to...
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    The film avoids people's illusions about East Germany, and also avoids all the expectations of ordinary audiences for a film that reflects East Germany. The director gently pointed the camera at an inconspicuous village doctor in East Germany—Barbara. Her life and love were unremarkable, but with authenticity and universality. Unlike the strong war elements in previous German movies, everything in "Barbara" is unbearable. Gentle shots,...
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    Movie quotes

    • André: Doctor Wolff will be working with us. She is from Berlin... from the Charite Hospital, and has decided...

      Assistenzärztin Schulze: We have introduced ourselves.