Barbara (2012)
Directed by Christian Petzold
In 1980s East Germany, Berlin doctor Barbara is 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.
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There’s even a poignant if somewhat protracted interlude featuring “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” star Anamaria Marinca and younger beauty Alicia von Rittberg (“Barbara”), in which Pitt’s character enables the incredulous Norman to lose his virginity: “She’s a good, clean girl.
A shaken Irma (Anamaria Marinca, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days") is trying to protect her beautiful young niece Emma (Alicia von Rittberg, "Barbara") from enemy soldiers, but Wardaddy sets the stage for domesticity, offering a half dozen eggs.
The two women are an aunt (Anamaria Marinca, star of the great Romanian movie “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”) and her teenage niece (Alicia Von Rittberg, “Barbara”), and they know exactly how precarious their situation is when the Americans arrive in town.
And then there is the extraordinary scene that challenges our notion of what constitutes a “good guy” both onscreen and in real life, in which Collier is shown to be so far gone ethically and morally that he either doesn’t realize or doesn’t care that he is being utterly menacing toward two German civilian women (Alicia von Rittberg [ Barbara ] and Anamaria Marinca [ Europa Report ]), and may in fact believe himself to be behaving in a chivalrous way toward them.
Years later, the notorious duo have taken a job with Augsburg's Mayor Engleman (Rainer Bock, "Inglourious Basterds," "Barbara") to solve another crime of kidnapped children.