Rosenstrasse
2003
**½
Director: Margarethe Von Trotta
Cast: Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe
In 2003 a young New Yorker interviews an old lady who saved her mother's life in 1943 when a group of Aryan women in Berlin mounted a protest against the Nazi regime to save their Jewish husbands from deportation to Auschwitz. Despite the actual historical backdrop this drama never grabs you. The modern day half of the story is unnecessary and the WW2 flashbacks are not able to create a sense of jeopardy and despair, which is a must for any Holocaust film.
