Rosenstrasse (2003)

Overview: 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?

Director: Margarethe von Trotta

Cast: Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe, Svea Lohde

Original Language: DE

Original Title: Rosenstraße

Budget: N/A

Revenue: N/A

MPAA Rating: PG

Keywords: berlin, germany, nazi, deportation, woman director

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