Two Lives
She built one life on love, the other on deceit
Genres
Overview
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?
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$1649260
Runtime
97 min
Release Date
2012-10-19
Status
Released
Original Language
German
Vote Count
64
Vote Average
6.6
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
Thomas Lawinky
Kahlmann
Ralf Dittrich
Clerk
Klara Manzel
Young Katrine Evensen
Christian Steyer
Archivist
Mathias Harrebye-Brandt
Danish Interrogator
Ellen Brigitte Winthe
Marit
Thorbjørn Harr
Young Bjarte Myrdal
Hubert Weber
Strassbourg Committee
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