Rosenstrasse Page #5

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
123 Views


She promised she'd come home to me soon.

Were you inside there? How did you get in?

Through the courtyard.

I made myself very small.

Your husband says

he left it at the factory.

Thank you, you're an angel.

Can I get permission to see him?

You'd have to get yourself a star.

What?

You mean they might never be released.

I'm going to wait anyway.

For a miracle.

Please, how can I find out who's in there?

I'm looking for my husband.

They took him away this morning.

Ask the policeman in the middle.

It's freezing. Fire into the crowd

and they'd disperse.

Willi, we've got no orders for that.

What do we do if they stay here all night?

The cold will get the better of them.

They look like they'd sooner

freeze to death than leave.

With this ring I can wish

for anything I want.

Go home, your lips

are already turning blue.

Can't I go home with you?

No. I'm afraid not.

I lost my key.

Then ring at the neighbor's.

There's no one left.

Stop it, who knows what they'll do?

It's already dark anyway.

I won't let you go home alone now.

Of course it was dangerous to take her in.

Dangerous for her...

and for me.

But...

was I supposed to leave

her there on the street?

Please leave now, Hannah.

The past can be so exhausting.

Can I come back tomorrow?

Yes, of course.

It's alright to come later than today too.

I don't sleep very well at night anymore.

Can I bring you anything?

- Cake perhaps?

- Bring some for yourself.

I shouldn't eat sweets anymore.

I wish I could do

something to make you happy...

in return for pestering you so.

Perhaps a record album...

Oh dear, they don't have those anymore.

Was there anything in particular?

Sonata in A major by Cesar Franck

for violin and piano.

Fabian's favorite sonata.

I had an...

old shellac of it, but unfortunately I...

dropped it.

See you tomorrow.

You played absolutely marvelously.

- A fabulous concert.

- Glad you liked it.

A photo please.

Hold still please.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- You were fantastic, Fabian.

- I'm glad...

Grandpa would have been pleased with you.

- With both of us.

- Of course.

With both of you...

- Blessings my child.

- Thank you.

- I thought you played wonderfully.

- So did you.

But you were better.

And you were even better.

The whole world will worship you.

People won't be able to get enough of you.

London, Paris, and New York.

Have our parents left?

Came and gone. Don't bother about them.

The old general will surrender eventually.

Let's go paint the town, you're my guests.

- With or without dancing?

- With, of course.

Of course...

At least mother could have

said hello after the concert.

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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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