TWO LIVES
by Georg Maas
synopsis
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, now living in Norway since 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. Katrine enjoys a happy family life, with her mother, her husband, daughter and grand-daughter. 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 concealment 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?
| international title: | Two Lives |
| original title: | Zwei Leben |
| country: | Germany, Norway |
| sales agent: | Beta Cinema |
| year: | 2012 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Georg Maas |
| film run: | 100' |
| release date: | NO 19/10/2012, DE 19/09/2013, BE 04/06/2014, FR 07/05/2014, NL 17/07/2014 |
| screenplay: | Georg Maas, Christoph Tölle, Ståle Stein Berg, Judith Kaufmann |
| cast: | Liv Ullmann, Dennis Storhøi, Ken Duken, Rainer Bock, Juliane Köhler, Vicky Krieps, Sven Nordin, Ursula Werner, Thomas Lawincky |
| cinematography by: | Judith Kaufmann |
| film editing: | Hansjörg Weißbrich |
| art director: | Tamara Marini |
| costumes designer: | Ute Paffendorf |
| producer: | Axel Helgeland, Dieter Zeppenfeld, Rudi Teichmann |
| co-producer: | Jörg Westerkamp |
| production: | Zinnober Film, B&T-Filmproduktion, Helgeland Films AS, Film Fund FUZZ, ApolloMedia |
| backing: | Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, German Federal Film Fund, MEDIA, Norwegian Film Institute, ARD Degeto, Fuzz Filmfondet, TV2, Canal+ Scandinavia, Vestnorsk Filmsenter, i2i |
| distributor: | Farbfilm Verleih GmbH, Dulac Distribution, Cinéart, Cinéart Netherlands B.V. |
