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Barbara, The Match Factory ; Schramm Film Koerner & Weber, in Koproduktion mit ZDF und ARTE ; Drehbuchmitarbeit, Harun Farocki ; Produzenten, Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber ; Buch und Regie, Christian Petzold

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MPAA rating: PG-13

Barbara

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The Match Factory ; Schramm Film Koerner & Weber, in Koproduktion mit ZDF und ARTE ; Drehbuchmitarbeit, Harun Farocki ; Produzenten, Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber ; Buch und Regie, Christian Petzold

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"A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital"--Internet Movie Database"East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. She must weigh her absolute dedication to her patients against a potential escape to the West, and her newfound attraction to a doctor in whom she sees a kindred spirit. Barbara is a story of self-sacrifice and freedom and quiet heroism at a time and place when such values are at a premium. It is also about a healer whose morality and set of personal ethics are being called into question by circumstances specific to that same time and place in history."--Container

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