BERLIN, Feb 16 — Markus Schleinzer’s Rose premiered at the Berlin film festival yesterday, with Sandra Hueller playing a woman in 17th-century Germany trying to escape the strictures of patriarchy by passing herself off as a man.

Hueller’s character, the eponymous Rose, is initially welcomed when she arrives in a small village in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War and the film charts her attempt to live freely in her assumed identity.