Two Lives
2012Europe 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?
Acted in
Juliane Köhler
as Katrine
Liv Ullmann
as Ase Evensen
Sven Nordin
as Bjarte
Ken Duken
as Sven Solbach
Dennis Storhøi
as Hogseth
Vicky Krieps
as Kathrin Lehnhaber
Rainer Bock
as Hugo
Ursula Werner
as Hiltrud
Jürgen Rißmann
as Lattoch
Julia Bache-Wiig
as Anne
Holger Handtke
as German man
Daniel Krauss
as German TV Journalist
Thomas Lawinky
as Kahlmann
Ralf Dittrich
as Clerk
Klara Manzel
as Young Katrine Evensen
Christian Steyer
as Archivist
Mathias Harrebye-Brandt
as Danish Interrogator
Ellen Brigitte Winthe
as Marit
Thorbjørn Harr
as Young Bjarte Myrdal
Hubert Weber
as Strassbourg Committee