Two Lives
Zwei Leben
2012, Film, 97 min, Drama, Thriller, German, Germany, MoviePedia score 66
She built one life on love, the other on deceit
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?
Directed by Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann
Cast
- Juliane Köhler as Katrine Evensen Myrdal
- Liv Ullmann as Ase Evensen
- Sven Nordin as Bjarte Myrdal
- Ken Duken as Sven Solbach
- Julia Bache-Wiig as Anne Myrdal
- Rainer Bock as Hugo
- Thomas Lawinky as Kahlmann
- Klara Manzel as Young Katrine Evensen
- Vicky Krieps as Kathrin Lehnhaber
- Dennis Storhøi as Lawyer Hogseth
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