Two sides, same coin — De Tweeling (2002)
Posted on April 22nd, 2009
It’s the 1920s. A set of twin girls are separated, aged six, sent to live in separate countries. Lotte (Julia Koopmans, Thekla Reuten, Ellen Vogel chronologically), suffering from consumption, is sent to live in The Netherlands in the care of a wealthy aunt. Her sister, Anna (Sina Richardt, Nadja Uhl, Gudrun Okras chronologically) is not as fortunate, finding herself forced into a work on her Catholic uncle’s farm in Germany. This traumatic separation is heightened by the fact that it happens only moments after the burial of their parents; the first in a series of events that will tear them apart for over forty years. Both girls grow up in different worlds, and come to be very different people. But as the saying goes, blood is thicker than water.…
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