Rosenstrasse

Name: Rosenstrasse
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 2003-09-18
Duration: 2 h 16 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe, Svea Lohde

Directed by Margarethe von Trotta

Drama

War

20032h 16m6.3

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?