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?
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 )
- Jürgen Vogel as Arthur von Eschenbach
- Martin Feifel as Fabian Fischer
- Fedja van Huêt as Luis Marquez
- Carola Regnier as Rachel Rosenbauer
- Plien van Bennekom as Marion