Two Lives

Two Lives (2012)

Zwei Leben

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?

Date of release
2012-10-19
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (79)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Georg Maas

Casting

  • Juliane Köhler — Katrine
  • Liv Ullmann — Ase Evensen
  • Sven Nordin — Bjarte
  • Ken Duken — Sven Solbach
  • Dennis Storhøi — Hogseth
  • Vicky Krieps — Kathrin Lehnhaber
  • Rainer Bock — Hugo
  • Ursula Werner — Hiltrud
  • Jürgen Rißmann — Lattoch
  • Julia Bache-Wiig — Anne
  • Holger Handtke — German man
  • Daniel Krauss — German TV Journalist

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