Released:
2003-09-18

Overview:
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?

Director:
Margarethe von Trotta

Runtime:
2h 16min

Genre:
Drama, War

• Cast:
• 
  Katja Riemann
  as
  Lena Fischer ( 33 Jahre alt )
• 
  Maria Schrader
  as
  Hannah Weinstein
• 
  Doris Schade
  as
  Lena Fischer ( 90 Jahre alt )
• 
  Jutta Lampe
  as
  Ruth Weinstein ( 60 Jahre alt )
• 
  Svea Lohde
  as
  Ruth Weinstein ( 8. Jahre alt )