Georg Maas' Two Lives Selected to Represent Germany at the Oscars
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Posted August 27, 2013 04:28 PM by Webmaster
Director Georg Maas' latest film, Zwei Leben a.k.a Two Lives, has been selected to represent Germany in the Foreign Language Film category of the 86th Academy Awards. Two Lives is a German-Norwegian co-production, starring Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Juliane Köhler, Ken Duken, and Ursula Werner.
Synopsis: Europe 1990. The Berlin Wall has just crumbled. Katrine is a Norwegian "war child," raised in East Germany, but has been living in Norway for the past 20 years. She enjoys a happy life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. When a lawyer asks Katrine and her mother to testify in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealment and secrets is revealed, truths that shake the family to its core.
Synopsis: Europe 1990. The Berlin Wall has just crumbled. Katrine is a Norwegian "war child," raised in East Germany, but has been living in Norway for the past 20 years. She enjoys a happy life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. When a lawyer asks Katrine and her mother to testify in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealment and secrets is revealed, truths that shake the family to its core.
