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TWO LIVES (ZWEI LEBEN) (Past Film)
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Completed - NORWEGIAN, GERMAN - Thriller, Drama - 100 minutes

Log Line

A former East German spy in Norway, has built her entire life on a fake identity but slowly all the lies and deceit are unraveled and she stands to lose everything

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2013 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2013 (Screening)
  • Toronto 2013 (Screening)
  • Busan 2013 (Screening)
Full history

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Georg MAAS
Writer(s) : Georg MAAS, Christoph TÖLLE, Stale STEIN BERG
Cast : Juliane KÖHLER, Liv ULLMANN, Ken DUKEN, Sven NORDIN, Julia BACHE-WIIG

Producer(s) : Dieter ZEPPENFELD (Zinnober Film), Rudi TEICHMANN (B&T Film), Axel HELGELAND (Helgeland Film)

Synopsis

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?

Production

Country(ies) : GERMANY, NORWAY

ARGENTINA CDI FILMS
AUSTRIA Dec 26, 2013 THIMFILM GMBH
BELGIUM Jun 11, 2014 CINÉART BELGIUM
COLOMBIA CINEPLEX
FRANCE BLAQ OUT
FRANCE May 07, 2014 SOPHIE DULAC DI
GERMANY Sep 19, 2013 24 BILDER FILM
GREECE STRADA FILMS
ICELAND HEIMILI KVIKMYN
ISRAEL NACHSHON FILMS
MALAYSIA MEASAT BROADCAS
NETHERLAND Jul 17, 2014 CINÉART NETHERL
POLAND Oct 25, 2013 AURORA FILMS (P
POLAND CANAL+ CYFROWY
PORTUGAL Oct 23, 2014 FILMS4YOU
SPAIN Jul 11, 2014 KARMA FILMS
TAIWAN SWALLOW WINGS F
USA IFC FILMS / IFC
USA Jul 11, 2014 LENS MEDIA / RE


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