Barbara (2012 film)

Barbara is a 2012 German drama film directed by Christian Petzold. The film competed at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, where Petzold won the Silver Bear for Best Director. The film was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

In her new job, she works in pediatric surgery, a department led by chief physician Andr Reiser. Reiser eventually tells her a story whose veracity she questions of how he too had lost his job at a more prestigious hospital in Berlin in his case because he was responsible for an accident with an incubator that left two premature infants blind. The Stasi had agreed to keep it quiet if he agreed to relocate to the provincial hospital and to work for them. So Reiser reports on suspect people, which now includes Barbara, which explains for us why we first saw Reiser observing her arrival in the first scene while in the company of the same Stasi officer who oversees her monitoring.By this point, Barbara has told Reiser even though she is certain he already knows that, after she said she wanted to leave, they told her, The factory workers and farmers gave you an education, and now you have to pay them back. She asks if his job is to make her reconsider her request to leave the country, and Reiser says, Thats not incorrect. ........

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