Producers: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Director: Christian Petzold Script: Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki Director of Photography: Hans Fromm Production Designer: Kade Gruber Composer: Stefan Will Sound: Andreas Mücke-Niesytka Editor: Bettina Böhler Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke, Claudia Geisler
Production Company
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Summer, 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has applied for an exit visa from the GDR (East Germany). Now, as punishment, she has been transferred from Berlin to a small hospital out in the country, far from everything. Jörg, her lover from the West, is already planning her escape.
Awards
Silver Bear for Best Director, Berlin IFF, Germany, 2012
Petzold, Christian
Christian Petzold (born 1960, Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany)
Studied at the German Academy of Film and Television in Berlin from 1988 to 1994. During that time, he also worked as an assistant director for Harun Farocki and Hartmut Bitomsky. Christian Petzold is one of the leading directors in New German cinema. The German Film Critics Association has twice awarded him Best Film awards. He was twice named Best Director at the German Film Awards.
Filmography
Pilotinnen (1994 TV), Cuba Libre (1996, TV), Die Beischlafdiebin (1998, TV), Die innere Sicherheit/The State I Am in (2000), Toter Mann (2001, TV), Wolfsburg (2003), Ghosts (2005), Yella (2007), Jerichow (2008),Beats Being Dead (2011, TV), Barbara (2012).
Christian Petzold (born 1960, Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) 
