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6.4 2h 16m

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?

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Top Cast

  • Katja Riemann

    Katja Riemann

    Lena Fischer ( 33 Jahre alt )

  • Maria Schrader

    Maria Schrader

    Hannah Weinstein

  • Doris Schade

    Doris Schade

    Lena Fischer ( 90 Jahre alt )

  • Jutta Lampe

    Jutta Lampe

    Ruth Weinstein ( 60 Jahre alt )

  • Svea Lohde

    Svea Lohde

    Ruth Weinstein ( 8. Jahre alt )

  • Jürgen Vogel

    Jürgen Vogel

    Arthur von Eschenbach

  • Martin Feifel

    Martin Feifel

    Fabian Fischer

  • Fedja van Huêt

    Fedja van Huêt

    Luis Marquez

  • Carola Regnier

    Carola Regnier

    Rachel Rosenbauer

Overview

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?

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