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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?Read moreLess
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?
The story
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 & crew
Juliane KöhlerKatrine
Liv UllmannAse Evensen
Sven NordinBjarte
Ken DukenSven Solbach
Dennis StorhøiHogseth
Vicky KriepsKathrin Lehnhaber
Rainer BockHugo
Ursula WernerHiltrud
Jürgen RißmannLattoch
Julia Bache-WiigAnne
Holger HandtkeGerman man
Daniel KraussGerman TV JournalistExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Georg Maas
- Director
- Georg Maas
- Screenplay
- Christoph Tölle
- Producer
- Rudi Teichmann
- Producer
- Dieter Zeppenfeld
- Screenplay
- Ståle Stein Berg
- Screenplay
- Judith Kaufmann
- Producer
- Axel Helgeland
- Editor
- Hansjörg Weißbrich
- Director of Photography
- Judith Kaufmann
- Original Music Composer
- Julian Maas
- Original Music Composer
- Christoph Kaiser