Rosenstrasse

Rosenstrasse

136 mins | Drama, War | Sept. 18, 2003

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?

Rosenstrasse

136 mins | Drama, War | Sept. 18, 2003

Rosenstrasse
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?
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Studio Hamburg Letterbox Filmproduktion, Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG)
Original title Rosenstraße
Directors Margarethe von Trotta
Writers Pamela Katz, Margarethe von Trotta

Cast

Katja Riemann

as Lena Fischer ( 33 Jahre alt )

Maria Schrader

as Hannah Weinstein

Doris Schade

as Lena Fischer ( 90 Jahre alt )

Jutta Lampe

as Ruth Weinstein ( 60 Jahre alt )

Svea Lohde

as Ruth Weinstein ( 8. Jahre alt )

Jürgen Vogel

as Arthur von Eschenbach

Martin Feifel

as Fabian Fischer

Fedja van Huêt

as Luis Marquez

Carola Regnier

as Rachel Rosenbauer

Plien van Bennekom

as Marion

Romijn Conen

as Ben

Julia Eggert

as Emily

Thekla Reuten

as Klara Singer

Jutta Wachowiak

as Frau Goldberg

Jan Decleir

as Nathan Goldberg

Lena Stolze

as Miriam Süßmann

Carine Crutzen

as Erikas Mutter

Lilian Schiffer

as Erika

Sarah Nemitz

as Adele

Rainer Strecker

as SS Schneider

Peter Ender

as Polizist Franz

Roland Silbernagl

as Jüdischer Ordner

Katalin Zsigmondy

as Norissa

Hans Peter Hallwachs

as Vater von Eschenbach

Gaby Dohm

as Elsa von Eschenbach

Isolde Barth

as Fabians Mutter

Fritz Lichtenhahn

as Fabians Vater

Nina Kunzendorf

as Litzy

Martin Wuttke

as Joseph Goebbels

Hans Kremer

as Hauptsturmführer Weber

Edwin de Vries

as Erikas Vater

Wolfgang Pregler

as Herr Müller

Claudia Rieschel

as Kollegin Klara

Siemen Rühaak

as Sturmbannführer

Heio von Stetten

as Wolfgang von Welz

Harald Burmeister

as Gestapo Mann