To Liv
Cinematography:
Judith KaufmannCast:
Ken Duken, Liv Ullmann, Dennis Storhøi, Juliane Köhler, Rainer Bock, Sven Nordin, Daniel Krauss, Ursula Werner, Thorbjørn Harr, Vicky Krieps, Holger Handtke (more)VOD (1)
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Europe 1990. The Berlin Wall has just crumbled: Katrine (Juliane Koehler), raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a "war child" - the result of a romance between a Norwegian woman (Liv Ullmann) 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 testify in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrecy is unveiled, until Katrine is faced with losing everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: what matters more, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on? (Sundance Selects)
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An unusual story based on a number of true events, which you wouldn’t believe actually happened until you watched the movie itself. The lives of all people whom you meet on the street, in a bus, or on the subways, are diverse and rarely simple. Katrine, for example, lived a life nobody ever wished to have. Her whole life, she was hiding her identity, but in the end, the truth caught up with her. I cannot imagine anybody could keep such a secret and I certainly cannot imagine that somebody could be such a monster as to ask that of people. Two Lives have convinced me that even such stories are written by the world we live in.
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