Barbara / Barbara
Barbara
In Competition > Feature films
Film infoCountry | Germany | Year | 2012. |
Director | Christian Petzold | Runtime | 105 |
Actors | Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock |
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012. – Silver Berlin Bear for best Direction
GERMAN FILM AWARDS 2012. – Outstanding feature film
Summer in the GDR in 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has submitted an application to emigrate to the West. She is punished by being posted away from the capital to a hospital in a small town. Jörg, her lover in the West, is busy planning her escape via the Baltic Sea. It’s a waiting game for Barbara. Her life, she thinks, will begin later.
Christian Petzold (born in 1960 in Hilden) is a German film director. From 1981 on he lived in Berlin, where he was studying theatre and German studies. He pursued his education at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). In 2005, his film “Gespenster” was presented at the Berlinale film festival, as was his 2007 film “Yella”. The 2008 film “Jerichow” was his fourth collaboration with Nina Hoss. The movie was nominated in the main competition at the 65th Venice International Film Festival in 2008.
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