Rosenstrasse Page #2

Synopsis: When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?
Genre: Drama, War
Production: Samuel Goldwyn Films
  8 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
PG-13
Year:
2003
136 min
$277,843
Website
112 Views


The language is all I have

left from my mother.

Why didn't you ever tell us about her?

Or about Rachel, your cousin?

I couldn't.

Or about the German woman who saved you?

Your father was the one who saved me.

Her name was Lena Fischer

and she lived in Berlin.

I would really like to know, Mom.

It wouldn't do any good.

Maybe it would,

I'm your daughter.

Shouldn't I know all about you?

Let me rest. I'm tired.

When Shiva is over, I'm going to Berlin.

Are you leaving me?

No such luck.

Luis, for the first time in my life,

I saw a picture of my mother

as a little girl.

It was shown to me by a cousin of hers,

whom I'd never have met

if she hadn't come to Shiva.

That lady we saw.

And in this photograph she gave me,

mom is hugging a young German oman.

Rachel said she saved

mom's life back in Germany.

Her name is Lena Fischer.

And since there's probably only one Fischer

in all of Germany you're going to ind her.

If she's still alive,

she's the only one left who can tell me.

what happened over there.

Wouldn't it be easier just to ask Ruth.

She won't talk about it!

Unlike you, she's devoted her life

to ignoring the country of her birth.

She must have told Robert.

Unfortunately he kept

her secret very well.

Said what?

I love you.

I'd like to see Hauptsturmfuehrer Weber.

Room 205.

Where are you going?

To see Hauptsturmfuehrer Weber.

You are aware you can

get divorced anytime.

Yes.

Now is perhaps the right time.

The formalities can be handled swiftly.

I just want to know where my husband is.

He hasn't come home from his night shift.

Please.

You're an Aryan German woman...

from an old aristocratic family.

Hard to believe you didn't spare

your father this disgrace.

Forgive me for interrupting, sir,

I was told you could help me.

That's what I'm trying to do.

You'd have your maiden name again...

and be a free person, Miss von Eschenbach.

I've been married 10 years.

I'm not divorcing.

And I've attested to

this many times already.

If you won't divorce voluntarily,

we'll evacuate you as a Jew as well.

But could you tell me

where my husband is first?

We don't give information

to Jew-f***ing whores.

Feel free to come to me

if you change your mind.

Heil Hitler!

Name...

Name.

I won't be on there.

Name?

Fabian Fischer.

Fabian Israel Fischer.

Yes, I almost forgot.

Not the best place for that.

Place of work?

German Armaments Factory.

There's been a mistake. My wife's Aryan.

- I'm an intermarried Jew.

- Sign here.

What is it?

Bequeathal to the fatherland.

You've already taken everything.

You must still have a chair or a table...

Where are you taking us?

Only he can tell you that.

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Pamela Katz

Pamela Katz (born April 16, 1958) is an American screenwriter and novelist best known for her collaborations with director Margarethe von Trotta, including Rosenstrasse and Hannah Arendt. She is currently a teacher of screenwriting at the Tisch School of the Arts. more…

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