Two Lives
- Released on
- Runtime
- 97 mins
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?
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
- Thomas Lawinky
- Ralf Dittrich
- Klara Manzel
- Christian Steyer
- Mathias Harrebye-Brandt
- Ellen Brigitte Winthe
- Thorbjørn Harr
- Hubert Weber
Director
- Georg Maas
Producers
- Rudi Teichmann
- Dieter Zeppenfeld
- Axel Helgeland
Screenwriter
- Georg Maas
- Christoph Tölle
- Ståle Stein Berg
- Judith Kaufmann
