A Short Cut Movie Review is normally less than 400 words, but in some cases may go slightly over. This is my attempt to keep writing about as many films as I see without getting bogged down with trying to find more to say. They are meant to be brief snapshots of my reaction to a movie without too much depth.
This film has not yet been released commercially in the United States.
The German-Norwegian co-production Two Lives is about the war children of Norway – babies fathered by
Nazi soldiers during the occupation. Because Norwegians were considered true
Aryans, these children were regarded as part of the pure race and so the movie,
written by Georg Maas, Christoph Tölle, Stale Stein Berg, and Judith Kaufman
(and directed by Maas), claims many of these children were forcibly removed
from their Norwegian mothers and placed in Lebensborn homes in Germany. This is
the story, based on an unpublished novel, of a woman who was reunited with her
birth mother in Norway, but whose life begins to unravel after the fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1989.
