The Rose Garden

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 Ruthi (Gila Almagor) who has also survived. At the end of the movie the experimentation on, and execution of 20 Jewish children in the Bullenhuser Damm is revealed by Ruthi. Arnold Krenn is found not guilty although he was.

Cast

Liv Ullmann as Gabriele

Maximilian Schell as Aaron

Peter Fonda as Herbert

Jan Niklas as Paessler

Hanns Zischler as Eckert

Kurt Hübner as Krenn (Krenn was based on Arnold Strippel)

Georg Marischka as Brinkmann

Gila Almagor as Ruth

Lena Müller as Tina

Nicolaus Sombart as Judge

Özay Fecht as Mrs. Marques

Achim Ruppel as Klaus

Friedhelm Lehmann as Professor Stauffer

Mareike Carrière as Mrs. Moerbler

Lutz Weidlich as Schubert

Peter Kortenbach as Emminger

Marco Kröger as Harald

Hans-Jürgen Schatz as Hrudek

Dagmar Cassens as Dr. Kurth

Horst D. Scheel as Ward Physician

Roland Schäfer 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