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Synopsis: In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre. Instead, Barbara snatches moments with her lover as she secretly prepares to defect one day. Despite her plans, Barbara learns more about her life that puts her desires and the people around her in a new light. With her changing perspective, Barbara finds herself facing a painful moral dilemma that forces her to choose what she values.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Christian Petzold
Production: Adopt Films
  10 wins & 22 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
PG-13
Year:
2012
105 min
Website
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I like it here.

Are you supposed to convince me?

To do what?

To withdraw my application to leave.

'The workers and farmers

financed your studies.

Non it's time to return the favour."

That's actually not incorrect.

I'd like to go to The Hague.

That's where the Rembrandt is.

Apply.

I have to go.

You said I could leave?

- Yes.

Didn't you notice anything?

The painting.

The man lying there is Aris Kindt.

He's just been hanged for theft

It's Doctor Tulp

giving the anatomy lesson.

They should have cut open

the abdomen first.

But they dissected the

left hand instead.

There's a mistake.

The hand is wrong.

It's the opposite one.

It's the right hand and it's too large.

I don'! think Rembrandt made a mistake.

You see the atlas?

It's an anatomy atlas.

They're all staring at it.

He is, he is, they all are.

And the hand is painted

like a depiction in the atlas.

Rembrandt includes something

that we can'! see,

only they can:

The depiction of a hand.

Due to this mistake we no longer look

through the doctors' eyes.

We see him, Aris Kindt.

The victim.

We are with him, not with them.

I'm tired, I have to get home.

Me too, shall IA drive you?

I need some air.

Fine...

I seemed a bit boastful

with the lab

and the analysis of the painting.

See you tomorrow.

Did you get the money?

- Yes.

You have to pack it so it's water-tight

- Via the water'?

When?

- Soon.

Very soon.

Hello.

Having troubles?

No.

Are you lost?

My colleague had gone...

for a pee?

Anything else you need?

Not that I can think of.

Tell me, I'll gel it for you.

I don'! know.

It's upholstered.

I read that they are even heatable now.

No.

In winter we have to wear gloves, too.

What will it do?

200.

But not here on our roads.

Hello.

- Hello.

'Is that a Mercedes?"

"How much do they cost?"

"How long did you have to wait?

"We waited eight years for ours

and that wasn't bad.

Was it at least worth it?

Sh*t!

I'm getting a coffee.

Want one?

Yes.

Stella asked for you.

Fine.

We hadn't ever been this rich...

The cigars were prime.

We laid off

all the aflernoon in the woods talking

and me reading the books,

and having a general good time.

I told Jim

all about what happened inside...

the wreck and at the ferryboat...

What's the matter, Doctor'?

I'm tired.

- Have a sleep.

I can't.

See how the moon, it rises

And golden stars shine

In the heavens on high

Coffee?

The wood stands black and silent

And from the meadows climbs

Such wondrous white mist

Come here.

- I'll come back later...

and read to you again.

They said I can read alone now.

They'll come and get me soon.

Can you do anything for me, Doctor'?

I'll "Y

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  • Mohammadreza Mehraban
    Mohammadreza Mehraban
    please also insert german script of films
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