Directed by:
Margarethe von TrottaScreenplay:
Pamela KatzCinematography:
Franz RathComposer:
Loek DikkerCast:
Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe, Jürgen Vogel, Martin Feifel, Jutta Wachowiak, Jan Decleir, Thekla Reuten, Gaby Dohm, Fedja van Huêt (more)Plots(1)
In 1943 Lena (Katja Riemann, winner of Best Actress award at Venice Film Festival 2003) was a beautiful, talented pianist disowned by her aristocratic father because she married a Jew. When her husband is rounded up by the Nazis Lena tracks him down to an old building in Rosenstrasse where he and hundreds of others await deportation to the camps. Sixty years later, a New York journalist, Hannah Weinstein arrives in Berlin to talk to Lena Fischer, the woman who saved her mother’s life. Margarethe von Trotta (The German Sisters, Rosa Luxembourg) intertwines the stories of Hannah and Lena, Berlin 1943 and New York 2001, Rosenstrasse becomes a film about today, a plea for tolerance and solidarity and a compassionate love story. (Independent Cinema Office)
(more)Cast
Katja Riemann
West Germany
Best movies:
Comedian Harmonists (1997)
Bandits (1997)
The Foster Boy (2011)
Maria Schrader
West Germany
Best movies:
The Road to Santiago (1999) (series)
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
In Darkness (2011)
Doris Schade
German Empire
Best movies:
Beyond Silence (1996)
Nichts als die Wahrheit (1999)
Veronika Voss (1982)
Jutta Lampe
German Empire
Best movies:
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)
The German Sisters (1981)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Jürgen Vogel
West Germany
Best movies:
The Wave (2008)
Life Is All You Get (1997)
Die Kirschenkönigin (2004) (series)
Martin Feifel
West Germany
Best movies:
The Promised Land (2023)
Snowland (2005)
What to Do in Case of Fire (2001)
Jutta Wachowiak
German Empire
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Jan Decleir
Belgium
Best movies:
Antonia's Line (1995)
Character (1997)
Blind (2007)
Thekla Reuten
Netherlands
Gaby Dohm
German Empire
Best movies:
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) (TV movie)
The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Fedja van Huêt
Netherlands
Best movies:
Character (1997)
The Delivery (1999)
Accused (2014)
Carola Regnier
German Empire
Best movies:
Walk on Water (2004)
Day of the Idiots (1981)
A Woman in Flames (1983)
Lena Stolze
Best movies:
Lemmings, Part 1 - Arcades (1979) (TV movie)
The White Rose (1982)
The Nasty Girl (1990)
Martin Wuttke
West Germany
Best movies:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Maximilian & Marie De Bourgogne (2017) (series)
No Place to Go (2000)
Hans Peter Hallwachs
German Empire
Best movies:
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Nichts als die Wahrheit (1999)
Degree of Murder (1967)
Rainer Strecker
Best movies:
Westler (1985)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Nina Kunzendorf
West Germany
Best movies:
Woman in Gold (2015)
Operation Valkyrie (2004) (TV movie)
Bis nichts mehr bleibt (2010) (TV movie)
Claudia Rieschel
West Germany
Best movies:
The Serpent (1973)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Siemen Rühaak
West Germany
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Isolde Barth
West Germany
Best movies:
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Holocaust (1978) (series)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)