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)Plots(1)
Europe 1990. Katrine, a daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, raised in East Germany and living in Norway, finds her happy family life disrupted when she refuses to testify about her time as a "war child". Katrine is a woman raised in an East German orphanage after the Nazis stole her from her Norwegian mother. Years later, she managed to escape from East Germany to track down her mother, and by 1990 is at the heart of a happy, bustling Norwegian family. But when a young lawyer calls, determined to recruit her in a claim for compensation from the new postunification German state, Katrine is forced to confront her secret past as a "war child" in East Germany, and these revelations threaten to destroy the happy life she has built in Norway. (official distributor synopsis)
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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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