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?
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Katja Riemann as Lena Fischer ( 33 Jahre alt )
Maria Schrader as Hannah Weinstein
Doris Schade as Lena Fischer ( 90 Jahre alt )
Jutta Lampe as Ruth Weinstein ( 60 Jahre alt )
Svea Lohde as Ruth Weinstein ( 8. Jahre alt )
Jürgen Vogel as Arthur von Eschenbach
Martin Feifel as Fabian Fischer
Fedja van Huêt as Luis Marquez
Carola Regnier as Rachel Rosenbauer
Plien van Bennekom as Marion
Romijn Conen as Ben
Julia Eggert as Emily
Thekla Reuten as Klara Singer
Jutta Wachowiak as Frau Goldberg
Jan Decleir as Nathan Goldberg
Lena Stolze as Miriam Süßmann
Carine Crutzen as Erikas Mutter
Lilian Schiffer as Erika
Sarah Nemitz as Adele
Rainer Strecker as SS Schneider
Peter Ender as Polizist Franz
Roland Silbernagl as Jüdischer Ordner
Katalin Zsigmondy as Norissa
Hans Peter Hallwachs as Vater von Eschenbach
Gaby Dohm as Elsa von Eschenbach
Isolde Barth as Fabians Mutter
Fritz Lichtenhahn as Fabians Vater
Nina Kunzendorf as Litzy
Martin Wuttke as Joseph Goebbels
Hans Kremer as Hauptsturmführer Weber
Edwin de Vries as Erikas Vater
Wolfgang Pregler as Herr Müller
Claudia Rieschel as Kollegin Klara
Siemen Rühaak as Sturmbannführer
Heio von Stetten as Wolfgang von Welz
Harald Burmeister as Gestapo Mann
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