Rosenstrasse

German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta directs the war drama Rosenstrasse, based on the plight of "mixed marriages" between Jewish men and non-Jewish women during the Holocaust. In contemporary New York, Jewish matriarch Ruth (Jutta Lampe) practices Orthodox mourning traditions for her late husband, ...more

Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse (2003) is a strange yet compelling mix of modern Holocaust drama and old-style melodrama that manages to recall, at different moments, such varied movies as Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), such old-style "women's pictures" as Mitchell Leisen's To Each His Own and Irving Pichel's Tomorrow Is Forever (both 1946), and, seemingly courting disaster, Peter Godfrey's wartime potboiler Hotel Berlin (1945). Almost all of it plays well, however, and in von ...more