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Two Lives

She built one life on love, the other on deceit
She built one life on love, the other on deceit
Drama, Thriller - 2012
Two Lives
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7.1
92%
62
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
Cast:
,
Juliane Köhler
,
Liv Ullmann
,
Ursula Werner
,
Dennis Storhøi
,
Ken Duken
,
Jürgen Rißmann
,
Sven Nordin
,
Rainer Bock
,
Julia Bache-Wiig
,
Vicky Krieps

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Details

Rated:
Unrated
Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
19 Oct 2012
Country:
DE, NO
Languages:
German, Norwegian
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$1,649,260
Awards:
7 wins & 7 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
The personal drama is "I can't tell any more lies!" obvious, the international intrigue is lukewarm, and the big payoff, which should be a shocker, is so poorly staged as to be laughable.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
27 Mar 2014
fresh:
"Two Lives" is an absorbing, well-acted, moderately suspenseful mystery, although its time line of events is fuzzy to the point of impenetrability.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
27 Feb 2014
fresh:
Two Lives unfolds in a slow boil of rage at the government that allowed all this emotional destruction. But Maas treats Katrine with compassion, as a victim of forces more damaging than her own ravenous hunger for love and family.
– Ella Taylor,
NPR,
27 Feb 2014
fresh:
This sober look into how war, peace and politics splintered lives is circuitous, but worth puzzling out.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb 2014
fresh:
For an issue movie "Two Lives" is something of a nail-biter.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
27 Feb 2014
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