Rosenstraße is a 2003 Dutch-German war film directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Maria Schrader and Katja Riemann.

Amid constant flashbacks, the film pieces together the story of the Rosenstrasse protest, where the women waited for seven days and nights outside of a Nazi jail for their Jewish husbands.

Due to funding problems, she had to choose between retreating to academia (as some of her colleagues did) or doing more TV production work.

Katja Riemann won Best Actress Award at the Venice International Film Festival.

Among others, historian Beate Meyer compared fact and fiction in a detailed treatment,[2] and came to the conclusion that Rosenstraße was a projection of contemporary hopes and myths on history, resulting in a utopia.