Rose | image+nation

Germany/Austria, 2026, 93 min.
Director: Markus Schleinzer
Original version with English subtitles
With Sandra Hüller, Caro Braun, Marisa Growaldt, Godehard Giese, Augustino Renken

Rendered in breathtaking monochrome, 17th-century Germany is a land of velvety fogs and depthless nights. Just as black-and-white is the close-knit Protestant community where “The Soldier” finds herself. A society whose codes she tries, as a man, to bend to her entrepreneurial spirit. Rose emerges from smouldering fields filled with cracked skulls, a survivor of the Thirty Years’ War. “A Deceiver of Land and Folk” who claims an inheritance that is not hers to tend a farm long neglected, hoping to make it her own. To settle peacefully. Though, her battles are far from finished. Rose must endure fence-knocking storms and obdurate skepticism. Her concealment a matter of “constant vigilance.” Wanting more for herself, she strikes a bargain and is paired with a wife, Suzanna, who demands impregnation. The two faced with a choice: remain at odds or operate as a unit. For further deception and unspeakable barbarism awaits those caught unawares.