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Article: Rosenstrasse Wives Remembered By German Director von Trotta.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2004
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Byline: Andrew Sarris
Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse, from a screenplay by Ms. von Trotta and Pamela Katz, is a fictionalized version of a heroic event that took place in Berlin in February 1943, when "Aryan" wives rose up against the imprisonment and eventual deportation of their Jewish husbands to the death camps. Known as the Rosentrasse Protest (for the building where the men were held captive), this was one of the few--if not the only--successful anti-Nazi demonstration in the history of the Third Reich.
Ms. von Trotta had been trying to get this story to the screen for more than a decade, but was unable to get financing until very recently. ...