Release Date: 2003-09-18
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?
Rating: 6.3 / 10
Katja Riemann
as Lena Fischer ( 33 Jahre alt )
Maria Schrader
as Hannah Weinstein
Doris Schade
as Lena Fischer ( 90 Jahre alt )
Jutta Lampe
as Ruth Weinstein ( 60 Jahre alt )
Svea Lohde
as Ruth Weinstein ( 8. Jahre alt )
Pamela Katz - Screenplay
Margarethe von Trotta - Director
Margarethe von Trotta - Screenplay
Henrik Meyer - Producer
Richard Schöps - Producer
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