06/03/2003 - Sinces its 12 Dec release, this film has never left the Dutch Top 10 and today broke the 500,000 admissions barrier, 250,000 of which at home

Released in Holland on 12 December 2002, Dutch director Ben Sombogaart’s latest feature film, De Tweeling (Two Sisters) today broke the 500,000 admissions barrier, 250,000 of which in the Netherlands alone, bringing its gross to-date box office to Euros3.253.047m, Euros1,760,000 from the domestic market.
According to the Dutch Film Federation (NFC), in its first ten weeks on general release, De Tweeling never dropped out of the national Top 10 and is currently in 8th position. Distributed by RCV onto 68 Dutch screens, now into its 12th week out, De Tweeling is also the 5th best performing film of 2003.
Based on the best-seller by Tessa de Loo and produced by IdtV Film, De Tweeling is the story of two sister, Lotte and Anna Bambert, played by Thekla Reuten and Nadja Uhl, who decide to go their separate ways after their parents’ death, and make new lives for themselves in Holland and Germany. They are only reunited when WWII breaks out.