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xquisitely constructed and
supremely satisfying, Rosenstrasse
effortlessly erases the distance
between the 1940s and today, Germany
and America and, above all, a Holocaust
survivor and her daughter.
An intricate, intimate epic, this stun-
ning film — scheduled to open Oct. 8
at the Maple Art Theatre in Bloomfield
Township — succeeds as both a por-
trait of unwavering humanity
in a terrible time and a jour-
ney through which the sec-
ond generation corrals its parents,
ghosts.
The veteran director Margarethe von
Trotta, who was born in Berlin the year
before the climactic events in her movie
took place, has always highlighted
strong female characters.
This uncommonly graceful, intelligent
and moving drama boasts two remark-
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able heroines who do not hesitate to
take events into their own hands.
Rosenstrasse begins with an assimilated
New York widow's unexpected adher-
ence to the rituals of Jewish mourning.
Ruth's daughter, Hannah (Maria
Schrader from Aimee and Jaguar), does-
n't know what to make of her mother's
embrace of Jewish tradition, and Ruth
refuses to explain.
Instead, Ruth is thrown back to
wrenching memories — presented as
flashbacks — of her childhood in Nazi
Germany. Dodging a roundup
of Berlin's Jews that snares her
mother in the winter of 1942,
Ruth is left to fend for herself
Hannah learns — thanks to a cousin
she never knew existed and who comes
to pay a condolence call — that Ruth
was saved by a non-Jewish woman.
With no idea if this Lena Fischer is still
alive, Hannah sets off to Berlin deter-
mined to get the whole scoop.
Hannah indeed locates the elderly
Behind The Scenes
TOM TUGEND
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Stalingrad by making Berlin com
pletely "Judenrein."
On Feb. 27, the Gestapo and SS
t took noted director/writer
rounded up the last 5,000 Jewish
Margarethe von Trotta, who has
men, and some women, still living
chronicled the story of 20th-
legally in the German capital. They
century Germany in such
had been spared deporta-
films as Rosa Luxemburg
tion up to that point
and The Pledge, some 10
because they were mar-
years to complete the
ried to Aryans or had a
cycle by documenting her
non-Jewish parent.
country's "darkest period"
Before sending them
in Rosenstrasse.
on to Auschwitz, some of
While staying true to
the Jews were held at the
the basic facts, she has
former Jewish
dramatized the story of
Community Welfare
the only known success-
Office on Rosenstrasse.
fill internal public protest
The next morning, a
against Nazi rule by
Margarethe von Trotta, few dozen Aryan wives
telling it largely through
writer/director of the
of the. imprisoned Jews
the eyes of a young
film "Rosenstrasse"
stood in the cold outside
American Jewish woman
the Rosenstrasse build-
who travels to present-
ing, demanding the
day Berlin to track down her family
release of their husbands.
history.
The next day, the protesters were
In early 1943, the Nazi propaganda joined by a hundred more women
minister, Joseph Goebbels, decided to
and a few men, including one in a
"avenge" the German defeat at
German army uniform.
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