Rosenstrasse

HD 2.3 136 min.

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?

Genre: History, Drama

Release: Sept. 18, 2003

Director: Margarethe von Trotta

Cast: Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe, Svea Lohde, Jürgen Vogel, Martin Feifel, Fedja van Huêt, Carola Regnier, Plien van Bennekom, Romijn Conen, Julia Eggert, Thekla Reuten, Jutta Wachowiak, Jan Decleir, Lena Stolze, Carine Crutzen, Lilian Schiffer, Sarah Nemitz, Rainer Strecker, Peter Ender, Roland Silbernagl, Katalin Zsigmondy, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Gaby Dohm, Isolde Barth, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Nina Kunzendorf, Martin Wuttke, Hans Kremer, Edwin de Vries, Wolfgang Pregler, Claudia Rieschel, Siemen Rühaak, Heio von Stetten, Harald Burmeister