In 1980s East Germany, Berlin doctor Barbara is banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good-natured clinic head, Andre.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Nina HossBarbara
- Ronald ZehrfeldAndré
- Rainer BockKlaus Schütz
- Christina HeckeAssistenzärztin Schulze
- Claudia Geisler-BadingStationsschwester Schlösser
- Peter WeissMedizinstudent
- Carolin HauptMedizinstudentin
- Deniz PetzoldAngelo
- Rosa EnskatHausmeisterin Bungert
- Jasna Fritzi BauerStella
Crew
- Christian PetzoldDirector
- Christian PetzoldScreenplay
- Harun FarockiWriter
- Hans FrommDirector of Photography
- Stefan WillOriginal Music Composer
- Bettina BöhlerEditor
- Florian Koerner von GustorfProducer
- Anne EvenProducer
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