Academy Awards, USA 2004
| Nominated Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film
Netherlands.
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Miramax
Directed by Ben Sombogaart
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Miramax)
Twin sisters are separated at a young age after the death of their parents. One lives in Holland with wealthy relatives, the other in Germany working on a pig farm. The relatives conspire to keep them incommunicado, and it is not until the outbreak of WWII that they meet again. The intervening years have put them at ideological odds which they try but fail to overcome. The war brings much personal tragedy to both. We glimpse them again in old age, trying once again to overcome their past differences. Well done if familiar tale of the devastating consequences of war.
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