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15/03/2013

BBC Four - Barbara

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a smaller hospital.

Drama that tells the story of a doctor working in 1980s East Germany who finds herself banished to a small hospital in a rural backwater and makes plans for her escape.

In East Germany in 1980, as punishment for filing a request to move to West Germany, Barbara has been forced by the Stasi to leave her prestigious job in Berlin and move to a small hospital in a rural backwater. Monitored constantly by the Stasi, Barbara makes plans for her escape and trusts no-one. She believes her kindly boss Reiser to be a Stasi informant, but the two form a bond as they treat a young woman admitted to the hospital with meningitis, and Barbara begins to reassess her priorities.

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