Two Lives (film)

Two Lives
Film poster
Directed byGeorg Maas
Judith Kaufmann
Written byGeorg Maas
StarringJuliane Köhler
CinematographyJudith Kaufmann
Release dates
  • 19 October 2012 (2012-10-19) (Norway)
  • 19 September 2013 (2013-09-19) (Germany)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesGermany
Norway
LanguagesNorwegian
German

Two Lives (German: Zwei Leben) is a 2012 German war drama film written and directed by Georg Maas, and starring Juliane Köhler, with Liv Ullmann. Set in Norway and Germany, it is loosely based on an unpublished novel by Hannelore Hippe since released as Ice Ages. The film explores the history of the Lebensborn or war children, born in Norway and raised in Germany. It explores the life of a grown woman who had claimed to have escaped from East Germany, where she was raised, and her Norwegian mother, with whom she is reunited.

Two Lives won The Grand Prize and the BIFF Award for the Best Film at the Biberach Independent Film Festival, the Audience Award at the International Filmfest Emden, and was nominated for the International Debut Award at the Göteborg International Film Festival. The film was selected in 2013 as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,[1][2] and made the January shortlist.[3]

  1. ^ "'Two Lives' To Rep Germany In Foreign-Language Oscar Race". Deadline. 27 August 2013. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Oscars: Historic Drama 'Two Lives' is Germany's Foreign Language Candidate". Hollywood Reporter. 27 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  3. ^ "9 Foreign Language Films Advance in Oscar Race". Oscars. Retrieved 20 December 2013.