The twins (film)

Movie
German title	The Twins
Original title	De Tweeling
Country of production	Netherlands
original language	Dutch , German
Publishing year	2002
length	137 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Ben Sombogaart
script	Tessa de Loo Marieke van der Pol
production	Hanneke Niens, Anton Smit
music	Fons Merkies
camera	Piotr Kukla
cut	Herman P. Koerts
occupation
Nadja Uhl : Anna Thekla Reuten : Lotte Roman Knižka : Martin Jeroen Spitzenberger : David Hans Somers : Bram Markus von Lingen : Bernd Barbara Auer : Charlotte Betty Schuurman : Mother Rockanje Jaap Spijkers : Father Rockanje Ingo Naujoks : Uncle Heinrich Bamberg Margarita Broich : Aunt Martha Bamberg Hans Trentelman : Mr. De Vries Marieke van Leeuwen : Mrs. De Vries Sina Richardt : young Anna Julia Koopmanns : young Lotte Gudrun Okras : old Anna Ellen Vogel : old Lotte

The Twins is a Dutch film adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name by Tessa de Loo . The film is about two old women who meet again in a Belgian spa town and for the third and last time grapple with their past. Nadja Uhl and Thekla Reuten can be seen in the main roles . The cinema release in Germany was October 7, 2004.

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The twin sisters are cruelly separated from each other after the death of their parents as children. The on tuberculosis ill Lotte comes to the relationship in the Netherlands . Anna, who is healthy, comes to live with direct peasant relatives. While Lotte grows up in very good circumstances, Anna has to toil day and night.

When Anna hooks up with a young SA man, her uncle Heinrich, a Nazi opponent, beats Anna half-dead. As a maid , Anna ends up at the estate of the National Socialist Countess Charlotte von Falkenau, who treats Anna well. Lotte, who has since found out that her letters to Anna were never sent, is engaged to a Jewish musician. She manages to visit her sister in Germany . When she parted, however, Anna's anti-Semitic remark made her think, which is why Lotte broke off contact with her twin sister for a while.

Then the war also reaches the Netherlands. Lotte's fiancé, the Jew David, was deported to Buchenwald in 1942 and later to Auschwitz , where he died. The desperate Lotte forsakes all German, denies her origins and also vows never to speak German again. Anna is now married to the Waffen SS man Martin and lives with his parents in Vienna. She, who loves Martin dearly, suffers from his frequent absence. Shortly before the end of the war, Martin, who had previously survived the Eastern Front , fell in a battle with the Americans in the Eifel .

Anna and Lotte only meet again in 1947 when Anna visits her sister in Holland. Lotte is now married to David's brother Bram, with whom she has a daughter. After an initial refusal, Lotte opens up more to her sister again. However, when she saw Anna's wedding photo with Martin in SS uniform in Anna's suitcase, she was angry. She throws Anna out of the house, alleging that she is a Nazi and that she is married to one of the "murderers" of her fiancé David for a reason. The sisters parted ways for many decades.

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film : "Despite redundancies and lengths, a moving drama, carried by the impressive camera work and excellent leading actresses."
• Gong : "A great work with subtle dramaturgy, fitting dialogues, fine camera and brilliant actors."

Awards (selection)

The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film in 2004. In 2003 he received the Golden Calf in the Netherlands in the Best Feature Film category.

Web links

• The twins in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The twins in the online film database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The twins. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .