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Berlin 2012: Christian Petzold scores high marks with haunting GDR drama Barbara

Can a filmmaker born and raised in West Germany strike just the right tone in a film set in the former East Germany? I hadn't given it much thought, but the Berliner Zeitung raised that question in response to Christian Petzold's Barbara, about a Berlin paediatrician who is relegated to the province for punishment after requesting to travel west. The daily newspaper with as many as four full pages of Berlinale coverage daily comes t...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

Can a filmmaker born and raised in West Germany strike just the right tone in a film set in the former East Germany? I hadn't given it much thought, but the Berliner Zeitung raised that question in response to Christian Petzold's Barbara, about a Berlin paediatrician who is relegated to the province for punishment after requesting to travel west. The daily newspaper with as many as four full pages of Berlinale coverage daily comes t...

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