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
Edwin de Vries
Netherlands
Best movies:
Left Luggage (1998)
Dennis P. (2007)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Romijn Conen
Netherlands
Best movies:
Zusje (1995)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Gruesome School Trip (2005)
Johannes Schäfer
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Heio von Stetten
West Germany
Best movies:
Das ewige Lied (1997) (TV movie)
Bandits (1997)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Lilian Schiffer
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Der Bulle von Tölz (1996) (series)
Monika Häckermann
East Germany
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Der König von St. Pauli (1998) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Jean-Pierre Le Roy
Switzerland
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Der König von St. Pauli (1998) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Julia Eggert
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Die Bergretter (2009) (series)
Rosamunde Pilcher (1993) (series)
Björn Wenner
West Germany
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Cécile Gujer
Best movies:
The Peppercorns and the Curse of the Black King (2017)
Offside (2005)
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Tatjana Wehmeier
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
The Flying Classroom (2003)
Ein Goldfisch unter Haien (2004) (TV movie)
Sarah Nemitz
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Uwe Fischer
Best movies:
Rosenstrasse (2003)
Sovia (2007)
Ein Goldfisch unter Haien (2004) (TV movie)