Two Lives

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?

Director

Georg Maas

Screenplay

Georg Maas

Screenplay

Christoph Tölle

Screenplay

Ståle Stein Berg

Status

Released

Release date

19/10/2012

Original language

German

Box office

US$ 2 M