ROSE

Synopsis

Rendered in breathtaking monochrome, 17th-century Germany is a land of velvety fogs and depthless nights. Just as black-and-white is the close-knit Protestant community where “The Soldier” (Sandra Hüller, Berlinale’s Best Leading Performance-winner) finds herself. A society whose codes she tries, as a man, to bend to her entrepreneurial spirit. Rose emerges from smouldering fields filled with cracked skulls, a survivor of the Thirty Years’ War. “A Deceiver of Land and Folk” who claims an inheritance that is not hers to tend a farm long neglected, hoping to make it her own. To settle peacefully. Though, her battles are far from finished. Rose must endure fence-knocking storms and obdurate skepticism. Her concealment a matter of “constant vigilance.” Wanting more for herself, she strikes a bargain and is paired with a wife, Suzanna (Caro Braun), who demands impregnation. The two faced with a choice: remain at odds or operate as a unit. For further deception and unspeakable barbarism awaits those caught unawares. Markus Schleinzer’s historical drama unmasks the power of appearances and self-invention, as well as their burden. And leaves us shaken by the reverberation of true openness.

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