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?

Cast

Katja Riemann

Maria Schrader

Doris Schade

Jutta Lampe

Svea Lohde

Jürgen Vogel

Martin Feifel

Fedja van Huêt

Carola Regnier

Plien van Bennekom

Romijn Conen

Julia Eggert

Thekla Reuten

Jutta Wachowiak

Jan Decleir

Lena Stolze

Carine Crutzen

Lilian Schiffer

Sarah Nemitz

Rainer Strecker

Peter Ender

Roland Silbernagl

Katalin Zsigmondy

Hans Peter Hallwachs

Gaby Dohm

Isolde Barth

Fritz Lichtenhahn

Nina Kunzendorf

Martin Wuttke

Hans Kremer

Edwin de Vries

Wolfgang Pregler

Claudia Rieschel

Siemen Rühaak

Heio von Stetten

Harald Burmeister