SummaryEurope 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, daug... Read More
Directed By:Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann
Written By:Georg Maas, Christoph Tölle, Ståle Stein Berg, Judith Kaufmann, Hannelore Hippe, Änne Tröster
Two Lives
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Feb 25, 2014
80
Despite some mawkish moments, this portrait of where espionage and domesticity collide is a unique take on typical John le Carré turf.
Feb 28, 2014
75
Two Lives makes a decent thriller, though it does seem a touch overloaded with grainy flashbacks and plotty flourishes retrieved from Sergei Eisenstein (or perhaps Brian De Palma). Not that these faults matter much: The most ham-fisted filmmaker couldn't ruin the incendiary material on which this tale is built.
Feb 27, 2014
60
Two Lives is an absorbing, well-acted, moderately suspenseful mystery, although its time line of events is fuzzy to the point of impenetrability.
Feb 25, 2014
60
The film takes one entire act too long to shake its mopey fog and get crackling.
Feb 26, 2014
50
The film's educational impetus is to announce to the world that even picture-perfect Norwegians continue to pay a heavy price for the horrors of WWII.
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Production Company:
- Zinnober Film- und Fernsehproduktion
- Helgeland Film
- B&T Film
- Film Fund FUZZ
- ARD Degeto Film
- ApolloMedia Distribution
- C More Entertainment
- CinePostproduction
- Cinegate
- Norsk Filmdistribusjon
- Beta Cinema
- TV2 Norge
- Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
- Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
- Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF)
- Norsk Filminstitutt
- i2i Media Programme
Release Date:Feb 28, 2014
Duration:1 h 37 m
Tagline:She built one life on love, the other on deceit.
Awards
German Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Emden International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Jupiter Award
• 2 Nominations
