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Two Lives (2012)

Two Lives (2012)

Drama Thriller

She built one life on love, the other on deceit

Release Date: 2012, October 19
Directors: Georg Maas
Countries: Germany, Norway
Production: Helgeland Film, Zinnober Film- und Fernsehproduktion, B&T Film
Cast: Dennis Storhøi, Ken Duken, Rainer Bock, Thomas Lawinky, Liv Ullmann, Vicky Krieps, Juliane Köhler, Holger Handtke, Christian Steyer, Mathias Harrebye-Brandt, Thorbjørn Harr, Jürgen Rißmann

Overview:

Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?

Keywords:

1990s trial germany norway berlin wall