Movie

Two Lives (2012)

Zwei Leben

97 min

• Drama
• Thriller

Director

Georg Maas

Released

October 19, 2012

Synopsis

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?

Cast

• Juliane Köhler
• Liv Ullmann
• Sven Nordin
• Ken Duken
• Dennis Storhøi
• Vicky Krieps
• Rainer Bock
• Ursula Werner
• Jürgen Rißmann
• Julia Bache-Wiig
• Holger Handtke
• Daniel Krauss

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