Two Lives
“She built one life on love, the other on deceit”
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?
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Cast
20 people
Juliane Köhler
Katrine
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Downfall
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Liv Ullmann
Ase Evensen
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Persona
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Sven Nordin
Bjarte
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Lilyhammer
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Ken Duken
Sven Solbach
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Fate: The Winx Saga
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Dennis Storhøi
Hogseth
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The 13th Warrior
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Vicky Krieps
Kathrin Lehnhaber
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Old
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Rainer Bock
Hugo
Known for
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Freud
Ursula Werner
Hiltrud
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Hanna
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Jürgen Rißmann
Lattoch
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The Crocodiles: All for One
Wedding Fever in Campobello
Julia Bache-Wiig
Anne
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The Last Kingdom
Max Manus: Man of War
Holger Handtke
German man
Known for
Babylon Berlin
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Daniel Krauss
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Georg Maas Director · Judith Kaufmann Screenplay Ståle Stein Berg Screenplay
Worldwide gross $1.6M · United States release February 28, 2014 · Produced in Germany, Norway
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,649,260
Production
Helgeland Film
Production
Zinnober Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Production
B&T Film
Production
IFC Films
Studio
Germany · Norway
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Zwei Leben
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German · Norwegian
Release dates
Norway · October 19, 2012
Theatrical
Germany · September 19, 2013
Theatrical
United States · February 28, 2014
Theatrical
Brazil
July 18, 2014 · Theatrical
France
May 7, 2014 · Theatrical
November 27, 2019 · TV · Arte
Germany
July 23, 2015 · TV · Das Erste
Greece
November 20, 2014 · Theatrical
February 27, 2015 · Physical · DVD
Spain
July 11, 2014 · Theatrical
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