Two Lives ( 2012 )

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?

Top Cast

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