Rosenstrasse

Once again exploring women's experience within the dark folds of Germany's haunted history, Margarthe von Trotta turns to a subject rarely treated in Holocaust films: the fate of "Aryan" Germans and the Jews they married. New York City, the present. Having just buried her husband, 60-year-old Ruth Weinstein (Jutta Lampe) dutifully prepares her apartment for the seven days of Jewish ritual mourning known as shivah. Her grown daughter Hannah (Maria Schrader) is bewildered by her mother's sudden embrace of orthodox tradition, but she even more disturbed by Ruth's intense dislike of Hannah's gentile finacee, Luis (Fedja Van Huet). The mystery of Ruth's odd behavior is pa...