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
![Hans Kremer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/449/159449592_4f0be2.jpg)
Hans Kremer
West Germany
Best movies:
Willenbrock (2005)
Rommel (2012) (TV movie)
The Promise (1995)
Fritz Lichtenhahn
Switzerland
Best movies:
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)
Germany Pale Mother (1980)
Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)
![Svea Lohde](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/682/159682772_f483d3.jpg)
Svea Lohde
Germany
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Sommer '04 (2006)
![Frank Behnke](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/877/159877772_56a4ef.jpg)
Frank Behnke
Japan
Best movies:
The Speer and Hitler: Devil's Architect (2005) (series)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Robert Dölle](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/136/160136195_483508.jpg)
Robert Dölle
West Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Nichts mehr wie vorher (2013) (TV movie)
The White Massai (2005)
Jochen Striebeck
German Empire
Best movies:
Lucy, Terror of the Street (1983)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Hannelore Koch
Germany
Best movies:
Der Turm (2012) (TV movie)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Heinz Rilling
Best movies:
The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Carl Achleitner](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/233/163233848_3251ce.jpg)
Carl Achleitner
Austria
Best movies:
Das jüngste Gericht (2008) (TV movie)
Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden (2011)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
![Roland Silbernagl](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/448/160448368_949174.jpg)
Roland Silbernagl
Austria
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Die Toten vom Bodensee (2014) (series)
Die weiße Schlange (2015) (TV movie)
Harald Burmeister
West Germany
Best movies:
Dark Woods (2020) (series)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Wolfgang Pregler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/502/166502416_9c2705.jpg)
Wolfgang Pregler
West Germany
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Atto Suttarp
West Germany
Best movies:
Wolves of Berlin (2009) (series)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Long Hello and Short Goodbye (1999)
Burkhard Schmeer
West Germany
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Gefühle im Sturm (2002) (TV movie)
Ursula-Rosamaria Gottert
East Germany
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Yvette Richter
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Renate Usko
Best movies:
Deadly Maria (1993)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
![Morris Perry](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/455/161455540_2da189.jpg)
Morris Perry
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
The Bunker (1981) (TV movie)
The Debt (2010)
Plien van Bennekom
Netherlands
Best movies:
Dik Trom (2010)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Happy Family (2006)
Carine Crutzen
Netherlands
Best movies:
Mike Says Goodbye! (2012)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
The Pool (2014)