Barbara describes her own participation in the annual Veteran's Day program held at Seymour Middle School, because both of her parents served in the Navy. Dan Doersch, Veteran's Day program organizer, ...

With Barbara, German auteur Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow) delivers one of 2012’s better character studies, a tense and sparing Cold War-era drama about a female doctor (Petzold muse Nina Hoss) ...

The German Film Academy has announced nominations for its Lola awards, the country’s equivalent to the Oscar. Christian Petzold’s Barbara, the story of an East German doctor transferred to the ...

Christian Petzold's Barbara, set in 1980 East Germany, is a film about watching and being watched. Its central character, the Barbara of the title — played, in a covertly spectacular performance, by ...

Set in East Germany in 1980, Christian Petzold’s superb Barbara is a transfixing Cold War thriller made even more vivid by its subtle overlay of the golden-era “woman’s picture,” the woman in question ...

NEW YORK — When the German film director Christian Petzold was young, his parents rarely shared stories about growing up in communist-era East Germany, which they fled in 1959, shortly before his ...

The German film earns writer-director Christian Petzold the Silver Bear for best director at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer The deal was finalized ...

The historical drama is a staple of the film awards season, and the tortured history of modern Germany — with its echoes of the brutal Third Reich and war — has played a central role in many an ...