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Rosenstrasse(Rosenstraße)

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Germany, Netherlands · 2003
Rated PG-13 · 2h 16m
Director Margarethe von Trotta
Starring Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe
Genre Drama, History

After Hannah’s father dies, she grows curious about her mother’s past. She decides to visit Berlin to investigate. She meets Lena Fisher, the woman who helped her mother escape from Germany, and learns about the detainment of Jewish men who were married to Aryan women in 1943. How will the past affect Hannah’s future?

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The Hollywood Reporter by

At heart a love story, Rosenstrasse benefits from strong, sympathetic performances from two actresses who play the same character at different ages.

40

L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

Von Trotta and co-writer Pamela Katz can't resist cutting, again and again, to Hannah and her airless musings on the story's meaning. These interludes stop the movie in its tracks and, counter no doubt to von Trotta's intentions, do a disservice to the Rosenstrasse women themselves, who shouldn't have to fight for screen time.

70

Variety by David Stratton

A sober, unsensationalized enactment of a Holocaust incident. Von Trotta keeps sentimentality at bay and, as a result, the film isn't as emotionally wrenching as it might have been.

60

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

As a treatment of yet another unexplored corner of the Nazi nightmare, the film is revelatory; needless to say it's also heartbreaking.

70

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Most important is the film's consistent unexpectedness. Rosenstrasse captures well not only the varying states of mind and levels of awareness in Germany during World War II but also the era's lingering effect upon its survivors.

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