Rosenstrasse (2003)

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?

The movie Rosenstrasse, released in 2003, features 6 songs from artists like Zarah Leander, Cynthia Utterbach and Nina Kunzendorf. What is your favorite song from Rosenstrasse?

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Songs from Rosenstrasse

Sonata for Piano and Violin in A

Ich hab vielleicht noch nie geliebt

Zarah Leander

Just One of Those Things

Cynthia Utterbach

Ich weiss nicht, zu wem ich geh?re

Nina Kunzendorf

Where is the Magic

Cynthia Utterbach

Und wieder geht ein sch?ner Tag zu Ende

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