The Rose Garden (1989)

The Rose Garden plot

Gabriele Freund is a German lawyer who has taken on the defense of Aaron Reichenbach, an elderly man who assaulted another old man at the airport. Reichenbach refuses to talk about the incident, thus explaining his apparently incomprehensible act. Gabriele soon finds out that the 'victim' is a former Nazi officer from a concentration camp. This Arnold Krenn was responsible for the death of one of Reichenbach's sisters, his other sister was never heard from again. The two girls were part of a group of twenty children who were executed in cold blood under Krenn's command. Krenn wants to sue Reichenbach, but Gabriele opens the dark pages of his dark and evil past. Even after fifty years, there is a fierce struggle for justice, truth and reparation. The Rose Garden is based on the murder of the children of the 'Bullenhuser Damm.' These children, who were used for medical experiments in the Neuengamme concentration camp, were hanged on Adolf Hitler's birthday, just days before the end of World War II.

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29 August 2008 at 23:14

slik dat was dat er te binnen schoot bij het stukje van de kinderen in die school. daar kon ik niet zo goed tegen. het was wel nieuwe informatie over de 2de wereld oorlog die ik niet kende het verhaal was zeker interessant. 3,5 ster

swallow that was what came to mind when I thought about the children in that school.

I couldn't handle that very well.

It was new information about the Second World War that I did not know

the story was certainly interesting.

3.5 stars

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21 January 2024 at 18:10

Advocate Gabriele [Liv Ullmann] en haar dochter Tina [Lena Müller] zijn ooggetuige van een aanval op de bejaarde Arnold Krenn [Kurt Hübner]. Tot haar verbazing krijgt ze kans om de dader, Holocaustoverlevende Aaron Reichenbach [Maximilian Schell], te verdedigen. Na enige aarzeling neemt ze de zaak aan. Al snel blijkt dat Arnold Krenn in de Tweede Wereldoorlog enige tijd commandant was van een concentratiekamp waar medische experimenten op kinderen werd uitgevoerd. Ullmann zijn uitstekend en het scenario werpt interessante vragen op over de vraag in hoeverre militairen zich kunnen verschuilen achter orders van hogerhand, maar Rademakers laat zich iets te veel afleiden door een geschiedenisles over de Holocaust.

Lawyer Gabriele [Liv Ullmann] and her daughter Tina [Lena Müller] are eyewitnesses to an attack on the elderly Arnold Krenn [Kurt Hübner]. To her surprise, she is given the opportunity to defend the perpetrator, Holocaust survivor Aaron Reichenbach [Maximilian Schell]. After some hesitation, she takes the case. It soon turns out that Arnold Krenn was for some time commander of a concentration camp during the Second World War where medical experiments were carried out on children. Ullmann are excellent and the screenplay raises interesting questions about the extent to which soldiers can hide behind orders from higher up, but Rademakers allows himself to be distracted a little too much by a history lesson about the Holocaust.

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