Rose

Section: No Limit
Director: Markus Schleinzer
Cast: Caro Braun, Marisa Growaldt, Sandra Hüller
Duration: 1h 34m
Country: Austria, Germany
Language: de
Year: 2026

Amidst the turmoil of the Thirty Years´ War, somewhere in Germany, a mysterious soldier appears in a secluded Protestant village. The stranger declares himself the heir of a long-abandoned farmstead and produces a document to support his claim to the suspicious villagers. With time, he overcomes their doubts and shows himself to be a hard-working, God-fearing man, becoming part of the community in a quest for acceptance made up of impossible deceit. Because what the villagers do not know is that the stranger is actually a woman...