Posted by marci.l.angevine@Vanderbilt.Edu on Thursday, October 23, 2014 in Activities Everyone.

Presented by: Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Cinema & Media Arts
Germany, Norway (2012) Dirs: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann. As the Berlin Wall crumbles, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify at a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow “war children.” A web of secrets is unveiled, until she is finally stripped of everything and her loved ones are forced to take a stand. A sober look into how war, peace and politics splinter lives. German, Norwegian, English, Russian, and Danish with English subtitles. Blu-ray. 97 minutes. Partial funding provided by the Max Kade Center.