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?

• Carola Regnier
• Doris Schade
• Fedja van Huêt
• Jan Decleir
• Julia Eggert
• Jürgen Vogel
• Jutta Lampe
• Jutta Wachowiak
• Katja Riemann
• Maria Schrader
• Martin Feifel
• Plien van Bennekom
• Romijn Conen
• Svea Lohde
• Thekla Reuten