Summary: 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... (imdb)

Genres: Drama, War

Country: Germany, Netherlands

Directed By: Margarethe von Trotta

Written By: Margarethe von Trotta, Pamela Katz

Starring: Maria Schrader, Fedja van Huêt, Katja Riemann, Martin Feifel, Jürgen Vogel, Jutta Lampe, Doris Schade, Carola Regnier

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