The oddly attractive Nina Hoss plays an East Berlin doctor banished to a small German town after being caught trying to escape to the West. She starts work at the local hospital and begins to experience a slower pace of life and the ever present eye of the "authorities". This is an interesting character study of Hoss and those around her and how she plans to escape once and for all to the West. A well done character study that ends with the with the timeless question: What next? A quiet film for a quiet time. NF streamer with subtitles.
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Topic - 'Barbara': Life in bucolic East Germany . . . - Billy Wonka 20:08:08 12/05/13 (6)
- Not a bad film - Victor Khomenko 06:25:57 12/09/13 (0)
- I saw it in theater release. Recommended. (NT) - jeffreybehr 10:08:45 12/06/13 (0)
- Number 5 or 6 in my streaming queue - Victor Khomenko 07:20:25 12/06/13 (3)
- The American is a European film that just happens to . . . - Billy Wonka 16:03:49 12/06/13 (2)
- True - Victor Khomenko 06:32:04 12/07/13 (1)
- He is so clever he could probably build a Leica out of a cracker tin. * - Billy Wonka 12:55:45 12/08/13 (0)