Rose is a Timeless Fable Evaluating The Performance of Gender

Somewhere, sometime in the 17th century, a soldier (Sandra Hüller) appears in a tight-knit and isolated village community. She presents a set of documents revealing herself as the rightful recipient of a plot of land left behind by a deceased person. The narration claims that she had “turned her back” on soldiering during the Thirty Years’ War. Fortifie…