Arab critics crown “Rose” best European film: a film by Austrian Schleinzer about a woman who lived as a man

Al Liwaa: The incident is real. It took place during World War I in the German countryside, when the war ended and a German female soldier returned in the guise of a man, bearing the name of her fellow soldier who had fallen in one of the battles. Because she knew every detail of his life, and was tired of being a woman, she entered a village as a man and began behaving like men…
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