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Feb 3, 2012 · Rose: Directed by Wojciech Smarzowski. With Marcin Dorocinski, Agata Kulesza, Malwina Buss, Kinga Preis. Rose, a German widow, hides from Russian soldiers who like to rape women and fights off Polish refugees who will steal everything she has.
- (4K)
- Drama, War
- Wojciech Smarzowski
- 2012-02-03
Rose (Polish: Róża) is a 2011 Polish film directed by Wojciech Smarzowski. It depicts the love story of a Masurian woman and an officer of the Armia Krajowa in postwar Masuria.
Rose is a 2011 Polish film directed by Wojciech Smarzowski. This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm.
The fire of World War II smoldered in Masuria, in the northeast corner of Poland, long after the war ceased. Life was especially hard for innocents like Rose, a German speaker whose soldier husband died in battle. Victorious Russians and Poles treated such women as conquered enemies.
- (1K)
- PISF
- Wojciech Smarzowski
A harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose husband, a German soldier, was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits.
- (263)
- Piotr Sobocinski Jr.
- 2011: Warsaw Film Festival: Best Film
- Poland
Smarzowski shines a light on the the tragic 'forgotten' struggle of the Mazurians, who living in the borderlands between Poland and Germany, find themselves caught between the devil and the deep blue sea as their home becomes little more than a warfare pawn.
Rose is a hopeful woman broken by drugs, prostitution and Blondie, the Czar of Hellville. Struggling to support her habit, Rose finds herself and her six year old daughter...
