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?

Juliane Köhler
Katrine

Liv Ullmann
Ase Evensen

Sven Nordin
Bjarte

Ken Duken
Sven Solbach

Dennis Storhøi
Hogseth

Vicky Krieps
Kathrin Lehnhaber

Rainer Bock
Hugo

Ursula Werner
Hiltrud
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Release Date
October 19, 2012
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
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