On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past...

Cast & Crew
Producers: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber, Anton Kaiser
Director: Christian Petzold
Script: Christian Petzold
Director of Photography: Hans Fromm
Production Design: K. D. Gruber
Sound: Andreas Mücke-Niesytka, Dominik Schleier
Editing: Bettina Böhler
Cast: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt Enno Trebs
Production. Schramm Film Koerner & Weber

Christian Petzold
Born in 1960, in Hilden, Germany. After studying German and drama at Freie Universität Christian Petzold enrolled in Berlin's German Academy for Film and Television. There he studied movie direction while at the same time working as an assistant director to Harun Farocki and Hartmut Bitomsky. After graduation, Christian Petzold made a series of interesting TV films. In 2000, his first theatrical feature, The State I Am in, about a couple of left-wing terrorists, was released and made a strong impression and earned its director both the German Film Award and the Hessischer Best Film Award. By 2012, this prolific creator had managed to make two more TV films and five additional features, among which Yella and Barbara, which is quite rightly awarded the Golden Bear.

Filmography
Ich arbeite alles ab... Ehrenwort! (short, 1988), South (doc., 1990), East (doc., 1991), The Warm Money (TV, 1992), Pilots (TV, 1995), Cuba Libre (TV, 1996), The Sex Thief (TV, 1998), The State I Am In (2000), Something to Remind Me (TV, 2001), Wolfsburg (2003), Ghosts (2005), Yella (2007), Jerichow (2008), Barbara (2012), Phoenix (2014), Transit (2018), Undine (2020), Afire (2023), Mirrors No. 3 (2025).