The Rose Garden

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The Rose Garden ★★½ 1989 (PG-13)

In modern Germany, a Holocaust survivor is put on trial for assaulting an elderly man. The victim, it turns out, was a Nazi guilty of heinous war crimes. Ullmann and Schell lend substance, though treatment of a powerful theme is inadequate. 112m/C VHS . Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda, Jan Niklas, Kurt Hubner; D: Fons Rademakers; W: Paul Hengge; M: Egisto Macchi.

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