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?

Cast

Juliane Köhler

Liv Ullmann

Sven Nordin

Ken Duken

Dennis Storhøi

Vicky Krieps

Rainer Bock

Ursula Werner

Jürgen Rißmann

Julia Bache-Wiig

Holger Handtke

Daniel Krauss