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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: REUTEN,THEKLA
EAN: 0786936292343
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 19369
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Product Description:
Separated as children and then after a brief reunion before World War II, two sisters are finally reunited in their elder years.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 13-SEP-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Rating:  - must see wwII movie
An absolute: MUST SEE I'm Dutch myself and probably biased, but the story is gripping, believable and very well acted... and yes you may have to 'suffer' through sub titles. Well worth your time !!
Rating:  - Excellent WWII film told from a Dutch-German perspective
Excellent Dutch film about twin sisters who are torn apart first by family circumstance on the death of their parents, and then by WWII. Well produced, well acted, and presented with restraint and a nice eye for detail by director Ben Sombogaart.
Rating: - TWIN SISTERS victims of circumstance
The Dutch Academy Award nominated TWIN SISTERS says a volume full about nature vs nuture as two German born girls are tragically pulled apart when they become orphans.In 1925,Anna is given to a violent farmer Uncle and his abusive wife, and Lotte, a tuburculant, is whisked off to a privileged life in Holland.The story flits from their youth to their last days and all that transpires in between when Anna unknowingly a victim of Nazi propaganda embraces for no good reason their philosophy,while Lotte is betrothed to a Danish Jew who eventually is transported to his death in Auschwitz.The girls have been systematically lied to their entire lives and each has had to grow and make decisions without the other.Each lands squarely and bitterly on opposite sides and forgiveness becomes virtually impossible.
TWIN SISTERS is a sad and frustrating look at what happens to people when their lives are no longer under their control.It asks questions that are quite unanswerable.The film does not allow the viewer to fully empathize OR sympathize with either girl's plight.Each has been forced to make decisions without any proper guidance.As they say in their last days,"We were victims of circumstance".This film truly puts the Biblical admonition "Judge not,lest ye be judged" and the famous Native American proverb "Judge no one unless you have walked in their moccasins".TWIN SISTERS is truly a thinking-person's movie that forces one to see both sideds of a story and not land squarely in either camp.This ... Read More
Rating: - A New Perspective
As a native of Netherlands, my husband was enthralled by the perspective and the lives of the twins. He gained new understanding of life in western Europe during WWII. This film showed a part of the war rarely seen. I have since loaned the DVD to friends; everyone has voiced their appreciation of the film. BUY IT, WATCH IT, LEARN...
Rating: - Potent, subtle, elegant
Wow, there are some poorly written reviews here. This is a beautiful film, lovely and tender and careful and sensitive. And worthy of more than a lengthy plot synopsis. That plot, hacked to bits by others here, does not need repeating. But the themes, barely touched, are timeless. And wonderfully presented. While a "Holocaust" film, it is not a grim parade of stacked corpses or incinerators. It is a film of gradual opening, as new things become clear, and people realize that their environments and their choices have led them to places they'd rather not be. And it again reminds us just how potent true evil is when it faces those who do not believe in its existence, who ignore and excuse and explain and justify.
What complicity does one have when evil is done in one's name without one's full knowledge? And when do we forgive those who have hurt us? Hard questions indeed. This film's answer is that love transcends complicity. Love says "I accept you, no matter what you've done. Come home." How beautiful. And how freeing.
So many delightful details, carefully and wondrously presented, make this a film that is both sad and yet joyous. The three pair of actresses are uniformly wonderful. The look is a treasure, as we move between comfort and filth. Life has been frightfully hard for many in the 20th Century, and yet those people, residents of cities that ceased to exist, or sole survivors of extended families that were exterminated, or scarred veterans who witnessed the horrors ... Read More
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