Rosenstrasse (2003)2h16
Drama · War
Director Margarethe von Trotta
Also directed Hannah Arendt, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Marianne and Juliane, and 20 more
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?
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Cast
Katja Riemann- Maria Schrader
Doris Schade- Jutta Lampe
- Svea Lohde
Jürgen Vogel
Martin Feifel
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