Rosenstrasse
by Margarethe von Trotta
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Actor: Doris Schade, Jutta Lampe, Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Svea LohdeDirector: Margarethe von Trotta
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-18
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Summary: 5 Stars
Nazism had trouble knowing what to do with two categories of Jews:
* Those who had `Aryan' blood as well as Jewish (Mischlings)
* Those who were married to non-Jews with numerous family ties to ordinary Germans.
This film dramatizes actual events that began at the end of February, 1943, when Jews with German spouses were rounded up and imprisoned in a Jewish community center at Rosenstrasse 2-4 in Berlin. A crowd organized by their spouses (mostly wives of Jewish men) gathered to protest and prevent their transport to death camps in the East. It is likely that their protests were the reason Gobbels, the German propaganda minister, released the men.
Some groups championing non-violent action use these events to prove, to their satisfaction, that non-violence would work even in Nazi Germany. But success in the unique circumstances of late-February and early March of 1943 no more proves the universal truth of non-violent action than Gandhi's success with the British in India proves that those same techniques would have worked against Stalin or in today's Tibet. Often brutal force is the only way to end violence.
These protests came at the precise moment when Gobbels did not dare permit anything that would damage German morale. Stalingrad had fallen to the Soviets in early February, indicating to many Germans that the war was lost. In addition, on the 18th of February, Gobbels had given a speech calling on the German people to sacrifice themselves in a "total war." And finally, in Munich that same week, several students involved in a group called the White Rose were arrested for criticizing the Nazi regime. If these Rosenstrasse protests had taken place two months earlier or later they might have met with Gestapo arrests rather than success.
Two criticisms have been directed at this film. One is that it isn't done as a documentary, that it confuses viewers by flashing back and forth between today and the events of 1943. That criticism isn't persuasive. It may mean that viewers have to work harder, asking themselves, "Am I in 1943 or 2003?" But that technique also humanizes the characters, making them into people who could be our neighbors or friends.
The other criticism is far more telling. This film suggests that Gobbels released the men because a wife of one of the men seduced him. There's absolutely no evidence that took place. Most likely, Gobbels acted as he did for precisely the reasons described above. Finding out the morning after that he had slept with the wife of a Jew would have probably led Gobbels to kill both the husband and wife in revenge. Gobbels wasn't the sort of man to charm or blackmail.
If you ignore that grotesque blunder, you'll find this film excellent.
-Michael W. Perry, Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements That Led to Nazism and World War II
Summary of Rosenstrasse
When her mother begins to exhibit strange behavior after her mothers death a woman named hannah learns more of her mothers troubled past in wwii europe where she was part of a resistence movement of aryan women who were married to jewish. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/28/2006 Starring: Katja Rienmann Martin Feifel Run time: 136 minutes Rating: Pg13Art House & International DVD Video
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