BERLIN – Oscar-nominated German actor Sandra Hueller mentioned on Sunday that the stigmatization of gender nonconformity depicted in her new interval piece “Rose” is growing once more at this time.
Sandra Hueller performs the titular character of the black-and-white movie set in early Seventeenth-century Germany a couple of girl who lives as a person to entry the freedoms in any other case denied to her.
The ties between Rose’s story, regardless of being set previously, and developments taking place proper now had been very palpable, Hueller mentioned on the Berlin Movie Competition forward of the premiere.
“Increasingly individuals who had been on the trail of being extra free and built-in in society, revered and accepted, are threatened as of late. Once more,” she mentioned.
AWARE OF THE RISK
After serving as a soldier within the Thirty Years’ Struggle, the battle-scarred Rose hopes to calm down and change into a revered member of her village, with out revealing her id.
“She was very conscious of the chance that she’s taking on a regular basis,” mentioned Sandra Hueller, who starred in each 2024 Oscar-winning movies “Anatomy of a Fall” and “Zone of Curiosity”.
“She is aware of that it will possibly finish very, very violently.”
SPARSE TRACES
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer, who co-wrote the screenplay, mentioned ladies traditionally adopted male identities for a lot of causes, primarily to realize autonomy. However their traces survive principally by court docket recordsdata or sparse diary entries.
Rose’s character was an amalgamation of a number of actual instances that he had examine. “The variety of ladies who’ve chosen this life have to be a lot larger,” he mentioned.
“Rose” is competing towards 21 different movies on the Berlin Movie Competition for the Golden Bear high prize, which will likely be handed out on the closing ceremony on February 21.
