Rosenstrasse (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?
Director:
Margarethe von Trotta
Writers:
Pamela Katz, Margarethe von Trotta.
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Katja Riemann as Lena Fischer ( 33 Jahre alt ) |
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Maria Schrader as Hannah Weinstein |
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Doris Schade as Lena Fischer ( 90 Jahre alt ) |
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Jutta Lampe as Ruth Weinstein ( 60 Jahre alt ) |
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Svea Lohde as Ruth Weinstein ( 8. Jahre alt ) |
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Jürgen Vogel as Arthur von Eschenbach |
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Martin Feifel as Fabian Fischer |
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Fedja van Huêt as Luis Marquez |
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Carola Regnier as Rachel Rosenbauer |
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Plien van Bennekom as Marion |
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Romijn Conen as Ben |
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Julia Eggert as Emily |
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Thekla Reuten as Klara Singer |
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Jutta Wachowiak as Frau Goldberg |
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Jan Decleir as Nathan Goldberg |
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Lena Stolze as Miriam Süßmann |
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Carine Crutzen as Erikas Mutter |
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Lilian Schiffer as Erika |
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Sarah Nemitz as Adele |
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Rainer Strecker as SS Schneider |
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Peter Ender as Polizist Franz |
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Roland Silbernagl as Jüdischer Ordner |
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Katalin Zsigmondy as Norissa |
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Hans Peter Hallwachs as Vater von Eschenbach |
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Gaby Dohm as Elsa von Eschenbach |
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Isolde Barth as Fabians Mutter |
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Fritz Lichtenhahn as Fabians Vater |
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Nina Kunzendorf as Litzy |
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Martin Wuttke as Joseph Goebbels |
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Hans Kremer as Hauptsturmführer Weber |
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Edwin de Vries as Erikas Vater |
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Wolfgang Pregler as Herr Müller |
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Claudia Rieschel as Kollegin Klara |
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Siemen Rühaak as Sturmbannführer |
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Heio von Stetten as Wolfgang von Welz |
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Harald Burmeister as Gestapo Mann |
| Writing | Pamela Katz | Screenplay |
| Editing | Corina Dietz | Editor |
| Production | Markus Zimmer | Producer |
| Production | Henrik Meyer | Producer |
| Camera | Franz Rath | Director of Photography |
| Production | Richard Schöps | Producer |
| Directing | Margarethe von Trotta | Director |
| Writing | Margarethe von Trotta | Screenplay |
| Sound | Loek Dikker | Original Music Composer |