Barbara
A tense, deceptively quiet film about life in a small-town police state. Barbara (Nina Hoss) is a doctor recently exiled to a village in the northernmost corner of East Germany, far from her home in Berlin. It's not clear why she's been exiled, or why the secret police in her new hometown have taken such an interest in her, but it's soon evident that they're right to be interested: Barbara is secretly squirreling away money and formulating an escape plan, determined to join her lover in the West.
by Alison Hallett