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The trite framework, static staging and unemotional acting render this a most forgettable Holocaust tale.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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Rosenstrasse
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?
Director and cast
- Margarethe von Trotta Director
- 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 )
- Jürgen Vogel as Arthur von Eschenbach
- Martin Feifel as Fabian Fischer
- Fedja van Huêt as Luis Marquez
- Carola Regnier as Rachel Rosenbauer
- Plien van Bennekom as Marion
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
56%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Succeeds as a testament to the power of love and, in particular, as a tribute to brave women.
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Rotten
A Holocaust drama that proves it's possible to make a minor movie about a major subject.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh
The film opens a window into the fact that not all good Germans were cowed during those dark times.
Angel Gonzalez, Dallas Morning News
Rotten
Some of the choices made here are more befitting a Lifetime movie of the week.
Scott Von Doviak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
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