NZIFF - Rose
<div>A heartrending, austere portrait of a physically and spiritually scarred woman returning to her postwar hometown in the 1600s, posing as a male soldier.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Horror is central in the tragic life of Rose (a transcendent Sandra Hüller), victim of a harrowing childhood and innumerable atrocities on the battlefields of the Thirty Years War, leaving her face disfigured from a bullet-wound. From an early age, she noticed the freedom a pair of trousers would afford her, and has since spent her life posing as a man. With the war over, Rose travels to a remote German Protestant village, laying a dubious familial claim to a dilapidated stretch of farmland. Rose’s life is one of fabrications, careful deceptions, a delicate ecosystem of repression which begins to unravel when she is betrothed to a local’s daughter.</div><div><br></div><div>Cruelty and brutality are everywhere in Markus Schleinzer’s transfixing new film, but rarely shown on screen. Shot in rapturous black and white, it is a tough, Bergmanesque tragedy, shot through with a staggering humanism that flows from Hüller, who has quickly emerged as one of the most significant performers of our time. It is not strictly a film about the transgender experience, but one about the terrible restraints we put on oppressed classes and the sacrifices they must make in order to live truthfully.– Tom Augustine</div></div>DramaPT1H34MM2026-08-31Sandra Hüller
Caro Braun
Marisa Growaldt
Robert Gwisdek
Godehard Giese
Markus Schleinzer
Johannes Schubert
Philipp Worm
Tobias Walker
Karsten Stöter
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