The
setting of this film is 1990 after the fall of the Berlin wall. Katrine was taken from her mother soon
after her birth. Her mother was
Norwegian and her father was a German occupation soldier during WWII. Katrine was taken to Germany because
the German people wanted all the German babies born of Norwegian unwed mothers. She was reunited with her mother as a
teenager and she has lived in Norway for 20 years. She lives with her mother, her husband, daughter and
granddaughter. A lawyer comes to
their house and interviews her mother on behalf of war children taken from
their mothers. Katrine’s mother
would like to cooperate with this lawsuit but at first Katrine resists. Her daughter convinces her that this case is
worth giving her testimony at the trial.
In
the beginning, I found this confusing but then I learned I needed to pay
attention to Katrine’s hair. She
has long dark hair when she is younger and then short lighter hair when she is
older as shown on the DVD cover. This is interesting with a
lot of surprises revealed as it goes along. There is beautiful cinematography of the landscape of
Norway. It's nice to see Liv Ullmann in a new role. 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
97
min, Drama directed by Georg Mass and Judith Kaufmann with Juliane Kohler, Liv
Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Ken Duken, Julia Bache-Wiig, Rainer Bock, Thomas
Lawincky, Klara Manzel, Vicy Krieps, Ursula Werner.
Note: Imdb 7.1 out of 10, 85% critic 69%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic 62 from critics based on 5 reviews.
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