In their conversations leading up to the making of Rose, star Sandra Hüller and director Markus Schleinzer worked hard at fine-tuning their eponymous 17th-century hero. Hüller was to play a woman disguising herself as a male soldier in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War, ingratiating herself in a small Protestant village. She considered preparation routines like strength training, before setting them aside as anachronistic; she agonized over keeping things as believable as possible. “She was wondering, ‘What should I do with my voice — should I lower it?’” Schleinzer recalls. “Then we started to laugh because then we found out that…
