''The Rose Garden'' is a 1989 American

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Fons Rademakers Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademakers (5 September 1920 – 22 February 2007) was a Dutch actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. His 1960 film '' Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas'' was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Fest ...

and written by Paul Hengge. The film stars

Liv Ullmann Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director. Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses of all time, Ullmann is known as the muse and frequent partner of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She acted in m ...

Maximilian Schell Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was an Austrian-born Swiss actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film ''Judgment at Nuremberg'', h ...

Peter Fonda Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. He was a prominent figure in the counterculture of the 1960s. Fond ...

Jan Niklas Jan Niklas (born 15 October 1947) is a German film and television actor. He is best known for appearing in TV films such as '' Peter The Great'', '' Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna'' and '' Anne Frank: The Whole Story''. He won a Golden Globe Aw ...

Hanns Zischler Hanns Zischler (born 18 June 1947) is a German actor known for his portrayal of Hans in Steven Spielberg's film ''Munich''. According to the Internet Movie Database, Zischler has appeared in 171 movies since 1968. He is known in Sweden for his r ...

and Kurt Hübner. The film was released on December 22, 1989, by

Cannon Film Distributors The Cannon Group, Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced films from 1967 to 1994. The extensive group also owned, amongst others, a large international cinema chain and a video film company that invested ...

Plot

A holocaust survivor Aaron Reichenbach (Maximilian Schell) returns to Germany and attacks ex-Nazi officer Arnold Krenn (Kurt Hübner) in a Frankfurt airport. When Arnold files assault charges, a public defender, Gabriele Schlüter-Freund (Liv Ullmann), represents Aaron, expecting a straightforward case. But when Gabriele discovers that Aaron is one of many victims of cruel medical experiments in concentration camps, she resolves to seek justice. Aaron is reunited with his long lost sister who has also survived. At the end of the movie the experimentation on, and execution of 20 Jewish children in the

Bullenhuser Damm The Bullenhuser Damm School is located at ''92–94 Bullenhuser Damm'' in the Rothenburgsort section of Hamburg, Germany – the site of the Bullenhuser Damm Massacre, the murder of 20 children and their adult caretakers at the very end of W ...

is revealed.

Cast

as Gabriele *

as Aaron *

as Herbert *

as Paessler *

as Eckert *Kurt Hübner as Krenn (Krenn was based on

Arnold Strippel Arnold Strippel (2 June 1911 – 1 May 1994) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era and convicted criminal. As a member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, while assigned to the Neuengamme concentration camp, he was given the task of murdering ...

) *

Georg Marischka Georg Marischka (born 29 June 1922 in Vienna; died 9 August 1999 in Munich) was an Austrian actor, screen writer, director and film producer for cinema and television. Life George Marischka was born into the world of film because his father w ...

as Brinkmann *

Gila Almagor Gila Almagor Agmon ( he, גילה אלמגור אגמון; born Gila Alexandrowitz; July 22, 1939) is an Israeli actress, film star, and author. In Israel, she is known as "queen of the Israeli cinema and theatre". Biography Gila Alexandrowitz (A ...

as Ruth *Lena Müller as Tina *Nicolaus Sombart as Judge *

Özay Fecht Özay Fecht (born 1953) is a Turkish-German actress and jazz singer. She was born in Istanbul and went to Germany when she was eighteen and found success. Filmography Television Music In the 1990s, she played in a group with Steve Lacy ...

as Mrs. Marques *Achim Ruppel as Klaus *Friedhelm Lehmann as Professor Stauffer *

Mareike Carrière Mareike Ann Carrière (26 July 1954 – 17 March 2014) was a German actress, spokesperson and translator. She was perhaps best known for her television show appearances. She was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. At the age of 16, she ...

as Mrs. Moerbler *Lutz Weidlich as Schubert *Peter Kortenbach as Emminger *Marco Kröger as Harald *

Hans-Jürgen Schatz Hans-Jürgen Schatz (born October 10, 1958 in Berlin, Germany) is a German television actor. Awards and honors * 2007 Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Federal Cross of Merit) Filmography * '' Breakthrough'', 1979 * ', 1980 * '' Die Weiße Rose ...

as Hrudek *Dagmar Cassens as Dr. Kurth *Horst D. Scheel as Ward Physician * as SS Doctor *Uwe Schawz as SS Unterscharfuehrer *Rolf Mautz as SS Rottenfuehrer *Martin Hoppe as Young Krenn *Helga Sloop as Old Lady * Helmut Krauss as Taxi Driver *Hans Martin Stier as Patient *Barbara Werz as Frau Hasold *Sylvia Martin as Frau Stülp * Andreas Schmidt as Vladimir *Deirdre Fitzpatrick as Helga *Ines Fridman as Rachel Reichenbach *Evelyn Kussmann as Ruth Reichenbach *Ute Brankatsch as Journalist *Jean-Theo Jost as Court Officer

References

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* 1989 films 1989 drama films American drama films Austrian drama films West German films English-language Austrian films English-language German films Films directed by Fons Rademakers Golan-Globus films Films about the aftermath of the Holocaust Films set in West Germany 1980s English-language films German drama films 1980s American films 1980s German films {{1980s-drama-film-stub