Barbara

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It will be difficult to understand for anyone not familiar with the "Stasi" problem in the former DDR, so I really recommend to non natives to do a little research before watching this. It is a portrait of a a physician (Nina Hoss) who had a disciplinary transfer from an university clinc OstBerlin/ DDR to a small hospital somewhere on the countryside. There she is still being spied on by the Stasi. The chief physician of the hospital likes her but is constantly rejected because she fears he is also a collaborator. The movie gave me a real good feeling under which oppression intellectuals must have suffered in the Stasi era, especially how this constant climate of mistrust negatively influenced their ability to building normal relationships to any other/new people. Acting by main actors, scenery and screenplay are excellent. To me in general most movies from Germany are very uninspiring, this country could do so much better, But this one is outstanding, one of the best things coming from there in the last years. 9/10 only for the little bit unrealistic ending (which I will not reveal of course)