- Rosenstrasse (film)
Infobox_Film
name = Rosenstrasse
caption = Rosenstrasse US DVD cover
writer = Pamela KatzMargarethe von Trotta
starring = Maria Schrader
Katja Riemann
Martin Feifel
director =Margarethe von Trotta
producer = Herbert G. Kloiber
released =2003 Germany
runtime = 136 min.
language = German
English
imdb_id = 0298131"Rosenstrasse" (or "Rosenstraße") is a 2003 film by
Margarethe von Trotta , dealing with theRosenstrasse protest . Rated PG-13 by theMPAA for "mature thematic material, some violence and brief drug content."Plot summary
In the present day, a widow mourns the death of her husband. She covers up the TV set and all the mirrors in the house.
Her grown children are baffled by this behavior, asking why their mother has suddenly gone
Orthodox Jewish . The mother starts reminiscing aboutWorld War II , about her childhood as aJew growing up inGermany during the war. It is the story of a little girl (the widow mother) who loses her own mother to theNazi concentration camps . It also addresses what happened to those who were in a mixed ("Aryan "/Jewish) marriage, people we often forget about. Amid constant flashbacks, the film pieces together the story of theRosenstrasse protest , where the women waited for seven days and nights outside of a Nazi jail for their Jewish husbands. Theprotests took place inBerlin during the winter of1943 .Awards
The film won a David at the David di Donatello Awards. Franz Rath won for Best Cinematography at the Bavarian Film Awards, and von Trotta won the UNICEF Award at the
Venice Film Festival .
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