Rosenstrasse: Movie Analysis

Movies are usually followed by books or events that sparked and interest in public. While movies depict the story of the written works, it cannot fully include all the information from the books. Movies are a medium that has to encompass a whole story in typically two hours, where a book can cover a longer history. Movie directors are in some ways translators of texts or their subjects; therefore, they have the ability to add or delete parts they prefer from a piece of writing. While the movie Rosenstrasse, does highlight some of the issues that were in the three articles, it leaves out other information such as Aryan women heads were shaved if they had a relationship with a Jew, and the strict laws against interracial marriages lead parents

In the texts it shows that it wasn’t the spouses that faced terror but family members as well. Since Nazi intimidation caused grave tensions and anxieties in these marriages and the divorce rate in the general population was on the rise. In the movie we do not view that; in fact we see that women were supporting each other and willing to save their spouses. The movie some ways showed that the Germans were not as threating but the texts shows how dangerous they were that families abandoned families. Moreover, the movie showed that after waiting for seven days and night in Rosenstrasse the men were set free, but in reality these Jewish men continued to be scrutinized and work difficult jobs.

While the movie highlighted some aspects of the mixed marriages, it left out many of the ostracisms and other neglecting the mixed marriages faced. Their disproval from relatives of both the man and woman side. It also did not include issues faced by the mixed children who were unaware of their Jewish heritage. To their dismay, they were in fact considered Jews under Nazi