Rosenstrasse
2003, Film, 136 min, Drama, War, German, Germany, MoviePedia score 65
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Cast
- Katja Riemann as Lena Fischer - age 33
- Maria Schrader as Hannah Weinstein
- Svea Lohde as Ruth Weinstein - age 8
- Jutta Lampe as Ruth Weinstein - age 60
- Doris Schade as Lena Fischer - age 90
- Jürgen Vogel as Arthur von Eschenbach
- Martin Feifel as Fabian Fischer
- Fedja van Huêt as Luis Marquez
- Carola Regnier as Rachel Rosenbauer
- Plien van Bennekom as Marian
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