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Two Lives

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Two Lives

Released Feb 28, 2014

1h 35m

Mystery & Thriller

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Katrine's life in Norway is happy until the Berlin Wall falls, then secrets from her past begin to emerge.

Stephen Holden

New York Times

"Two Lives" is an absorbing, well-acted, moderately suspenseful mystery, although its time line of events is fuzzy to the point of impenetrability.

Feb 27, 2014

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Ella Taylor

NPR

Two Lives unfolds in a slow boil of rage at the government that allowed all this emotional destruction. But Maas treats Katrine with compassion, as a victim of forces more damaging than her own ravenous hunger for love and family.

Feb 27, 2014

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Joe Neumaier

New York Daily News

This sober look into how war, peace and politics splintered lives is circuitous, but worth puzzling out.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 27, 2014

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David Lamble

Bay Area Reporter

...a disturbing, multilayered drama about the roles and identities of so-called "war children" in contemporary Norway and Germany.

Jun 9, 2020

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Nora Lee Mandel

Film-Forward.com

The gradual unraveling of [a woman's] identity is suspenseful and sympathetically reveals the true pain of being an abused pawn of the losing sides of history.

Rated: 7/10

Apr 11, 2014

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

Satisfactorily tragic and pained, Two Lives is sharp work that develops spellbinding turns of plot as it unfolds.

Rated: B

Mar 27, 2014

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My Norwegian language is getting better by the day recently , and the movie did get better by the minute . Nieslektee

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Audience Member

Double life and two lives.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Audience Member

Great dramatic potential wasted in an uninteresting script and "only" solid acting.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Audience Member

I was on the edge of my seat through most of the film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Tries hard to be Le Carre but ended up confusing until the big reveal at the end of the movie, when it made sense to me what the big brouhaha was about.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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A drama about a woman living two lives, one being a stasi agent abroad, and hiding a dark secret. Great historic thriller.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Georg Maas

Director

Juliane Köhler

Katrine Evensen Myrdal

Liv Ullmann

Ase Evensen

Dennis Storhøi

Lawyer Hogseth

Sven Nordin

Bjarte Myrdal

Julia Bache-Wiig

Anne Myrdal

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Synopsis

Katrine's life in Norway is happy until the Berlin Wall falls, then secrets from her past begin to emerge.

Director: Georg Maas
Producer: Axel Helgeland, Jörg Westerkamp, Rudi Teichmann, Dieter Zeppenfeld
Screenwriter: Georg Maas, Ståle Stein Berg, Judith Kaufmann, Christoph Tölle
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: ApolloMedia Distribution, B&T Film, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Zinnober Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Film Fund FUZZ, ARD Degeto Film, Helgeland Film
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 28, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 6, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.3K
Runtime: 1h 35m

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