A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
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★★★★★
BARBARA may be a little too slow and humorless for many tastes, but it's one of those films that's so real it hardly seems like a film at all. You have to admire the stark realism here. Whether you want to go there or not, this film truly takes you to a seclud...
★★★★★
This brilliant German film explores two fundamental questions: whether it is possible to collaborate with a fundamentally oppressive state, and the acute degree of personal loneliness felt by those who cannot, and whom the state thereby treats as its enemies....
★★★★★
"Barbara" is set in the East Germany of 1980. The title character is a young doctor who has fallen foul of the authorities because she has made an official request to emigrate to the West to be with her West German lover. Making such a request was not, officia...
★★★★★
It looks like THE LIVES OF OTHERS is going to spearhead a cycle of films about victims of the East German secret police and that sounds like a good subject along the lines of the US conspiracy thrillers. This one has an interesting enough premise. Out of favor...
★★★★★
Yes, I worked in the old DDR. Living in London, and being a graduate engineer able to speak German, I was hired by a company importing machinery from the DDR to be their liaison man at the factory in East Berlin, and spent a number of lengthy periods over ther...
