Two Lives (2012)

Original title

Zwei Leben

Directed by

Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

Germany, Norway

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 74 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman who fled East Germany as a child now lives in Norway with her mother, but her past catches up with her when a legal investigation threatens to expose her hidden origins as a war child raised under the Lebensborn program. The story moves between the 1940s and 1990s, showing how her family's secrets and loyalties are tested.

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What happens

Two Lives (German: Zwei Leben) is a 2012 war drama film written and directed by Georg Maas, and starring Juliane Köhler, with Liv Ullmann. Set in Norway and Germany, it is loosely based on an unpublished novel by Hannelore Hippe since released as Ice Ages. The film explores the history of the Lebensborn or war children, born in Norway and raised in Germany. It explores the life of a grown woman who had claimed to have escaped from East Germany, where she was raised, and her Norwegian mother, with whom she is reunited. Two Lives won The Grand Prize and the BIFF Award for the Best Film at the Biberach Independent Film Festival, the Audience Award at the International Filmfest Emden, and was nominated for the International Debut Award at the Göteborg International Film Festival. The film was selected in 2013 as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, and made the January shortlist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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