Rosenstrasse ( Rosenstraße ) ( The Women of Rosenstrasse )

Rosenstrasse (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Rosenstraße
Alternate Title: The Women of Rosenstrasse
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Camerimage Awards
David Donatello Awards
European Film Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Margarethe von Trotta

Written By:
Margarethe von Trotta
Pamela Katz

Actors:
Katja Riemann ..... Lena Fischer (aged 33)
Maria Schrader ..... Hannah Weinstein
Martin Feifel ..... Fabian Israel Fischer
Jürgen Vogel ..... Arthur von Eschenbach
Jutta Lampe ..... Ruth Weinstein
Doris Schade ..... Lena Fischer (aged 90)
Fedja van Huêt ..... Luis Marquez
Carola Regnier ..... Rachel Rosenbauer
Svea Lohde ..... Ruth Süssmann aged eight
Plien van Bennekom ..... Marian
Jutta Wachowiak ..... Frau Goldberg
Romijn Conen ..... Ben Weinstein
Jan Decleir ..... Nathan Goldberg
Julia Eggert ..... Emily
Thekla Reuten ..... Klara Singer

Synopsis:

Early on Feb. 27, 1943, under the waning cover of dark, Berlin`s remaining Jews were rounded up for what the Reich euphemistically referred to as deportation. While most of the detainees were doomed, some 1,700 men, women and children were diverted to a former Jewish community center on Rosenstrasse. Segregated because they were either married to non-Jewish Germans or the progeny of such marriages, the prisoners huddled together while outside, their German relatives, women mostly, initiated an unprecedented protest against the Nazi terror machine. In 'Rosenstrasse,' the German director Margarethe von Trotta revisits this relatively obscure episode from Germany's Nazi past to dismally inept effect. Known for politically charged movies about tough women, Ms. von Trotta here foregoes the typical historical reconstruction and instead attempts to put the past and the present into conversation. Because she isn't a historian it's arguable that her allegiance to the historical record need not be as firm as her commitment to her art, which at least here appears tenuous at best. That reasoning would certainly fly better if the filmmaker didn't try to wrench an object lesson about female empowerment from the Rosenstrasse protest.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 09 August, 2006.

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