Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Berlin Film Festival & German Oscars regular Christian Petzold (Yella Jerichow) returns with a fresh offering of crisp German filmmaking It is the summer of 1980 in the German Democratic Republic & alone Barbara is confined to living & working as a doctor in a small provincial town
- her punishment for attempting to emigrate to the West She has only one focus; to escape & for this she has to wait patiently Until Andre her supervisor in the hospital takes her off course Are his motives of love or duty to the authorities? The day-to-day pretence & content supervision slowly take their toll as the tension builds