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?

Director: Margarethe von Trotta

Cast

Katja Riemann

Lena Fischer ( 33 Jahre alt )

Maria Schrader

Hannah Weinstein

Doris Schade

Lena Fischer ( 90 Jahre alt )

Jutta Lampe

Ruth Weinstein ( 60 Jahre alt )

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Svea Lohde

Ruth Weinstein ( 8. Jahre alt )

Jürgen Vogel

Arthur von Eschenbach

Martin Feifel

Fabian Fischer

Fedja van Huêt

Luis Marquez