Summary
This back-story is important to know before seeing the film Rosenstrasse for one very simple reason: If you're unsure what the word "Rosenstrasse" refers to (a place? a surname? a rarely documented German hybrid flower?), you'll spend an hour in a panic, spastically wondering where the decidedly unfocused Rosenstrasse is heading.
We're never sure what von [Margarethe von Trotta] saw in the project, or what she thinks we should see. Is it about a woman (Katja Riemann) fighting for her husband's life in Rosenstrasse? Or is it about the modern-day New Yorker (Maria Schrader) who's questioning this woman (Doris Schade), now 90, in the film's Titanic-pilfering present-day sequences?See the full content of this document
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Rosenstrasse; Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Rosenstrasse was the name of an area in Germany that was transformed into a temporary detention center for Jewish men who ...
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