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Two Lives(Zwei Leben)

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Germany, Norway · 2012
1h 37m
Director Georg Maas
Starring Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Ken Duken
Genre Drama, Thriller

Having escaped East Germany to reunited with her biological mother, Katrine is happily living with her family in Norway. There is a continuing legacy of war children born of Norwegian women and German soldiers, later taken to be raised in Germany. Once the Berlin wall falls, Katrine's past starts to catch up to her.

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The Dissolve by

Despite some mawkish moments, this portrait of where espionage and domesticity collide is a unique take on typical John le Carré turf.

50

Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

The film's educational impetus is to announce to the world that even picture-perfect Norwegians continue to pay a heavy price for the horrors of WWII.

75

NPR by Ella Taylor

Two Lives makes a decent thriller, though it does seem a touch overloaded with grainy flashbacks and plotty flourishes retrieved from Sergei Eisenstein (or perhaps Brian De Palma). Not that these faults matter much: The most ham-fisted filmmaker couldn't ruin the incendiary material on which this tale is built.

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