The read
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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?
Ratings
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
43 audience votes
Key crew
- Margarethe von TrottaScreenplay
- Pamela KatzScreenplay
- Margarethe von TrottaDirector
- Loek DikkerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Katja RiemannLena Fischer ( 33 Jahre alt )
- Maria SchraderHannah Weinstein
- Doris SchadeLena Fischer ( 90 Jahre alt )
- Jutta LampeRuth Weinstein ( 60 Jahre alt )
- Svea LohdeRuth Weinstein ( 8. Jahre alt )
- Jürgen VogelArthur von Eschenbach
- Martin FeifelFabian Fischer
- Fedja van HuêtLuis Marquez
- Carola RegnierRachel Rosenbauer
- Plien van BennekomMarion
- Romijn ConenBen
- Julia EggertEmily
