Barbara

6 February 2014
Free film screening in full cinema setting in the Bloomsbury Theatre. dir. Christian Petzold, 2012, V.O. with subtitles in English. Introduced by Gaelle Fisher (UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society)

Part of the European Film Day organised by the UCL European Institute, in cooperation with Routes into Languages. The  European Film Day offers teachers and students the opportunity to see original-version films (Spanish, French and German), with subtitles in English with an introduction delivered by UCL academics.

The evening screening of Barbara is open to all students, staff and the general public.

Barbara (dir. Christian Petzold, 2012)
Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival 2012, this drama of human and political dilemmas follows Barbara, a doctor working at the prestigious Charité hospital in the East Germany of 1980, as she is banished to a hospital in the provinces as a punishment for an application to emigrate to the west. There, while harassed by Stasi official Schütz and secretly planning her escape, Barbara appears also to captivate an idealistic and handsome colleague. Is he falling in love with her? Is he another Stasi spy? Or both?