Rosenstrasse
|Rosenstraße
Status: Released
Runtime: 136
Release Date: 18/09/2003
Origin Language: de
Origin Country: DE - NL
Languages: GermanEnglish
Production: Letterbox FilmproduktionTele München
Countries: GermanyNetherlands
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
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?
