Two Lives (film)

Two Lives German Zwei Leben is a 2012 German drama film written and directed by Georg Maas, and starring Juliane Kohler, 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 Set in Norway and Germany, it is loosely based on an unpublished novel by Hannelore Hippe since released as Ice Ages.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.

It is based on an unpublished novel, Ice Ages, by German author Hannelore Hippe. It has since been published. She was inspired by reports in the late 1980s of the discovery of the halfburned body of a young woman near Bergen, and there was speculation as to her identity. This was just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany.The film gradually unravels the story of Katrine Evensen Myrdal Kohler, a happily married woman with a grown daughter and granddaughter, and of her mother Ase Evensen Ullmann. Katrine is known to have escaped from East Germany and made her way to Norway as a young woman to be reunited with her birth mother, Ase Evensen. ........

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