Rosenstraße

production: Studio Hamburg Letterbox Filmproduktion

director:
Margarethe von Trotta

genre:
drama/ history

cast:
Katja Riemann (Lena Fischer - 30 Jahre)
Maria Schrader (Hannah Weinstein)
Doris Schade (Lena Fischer - 90 Jahre)
Jürgen Vogel (Arthur von Eschenbach)
Jutta Lampe (Ruth Weinstein - 60 Jahre)
Svea Lohde (Ruth Weinstein - 8 Jahre)
Martin Wuttke (Joseph Goebbels)
Fedja van Huêt (Luis Marquez)
Martin Feifel (Fabian Fischer)

synopsis

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?