Two Lives

Zwei Leben

MS12

Genre

Drama

Director

Georg Maas

Run time

1h 37min

Cast

Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Ken Duken, Sven Nordin, Julia Bache-Wiig, Rainer Bock

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?

Germany / Norway 2012

Genre

Drama

Director

Georg Maas

Run time

1h 37min

Cast

Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Ken Duken, Sven Nordin, Julia Bache-Wiig, Rainer Bock

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?

Germany / Norway 2012

Info

Rating

Under 12 Not Recommended

Production year

2012

Global distributor

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Local distributor

Goethe-Institut

In cinema

5/4/2014