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De tweeling is the best dutch film up until this point. It was surprisingly well made for a dutch production. With more votes it would become a top 250 movie and I think it deserves to be. A few years ago I almost cried because of the Green Mile. This movie almost brought to tears too. It takes very much for my cold hart to be touched. Not only was I touched by the story but also the quality of this production.

Unfortunately the government wants to stop funding the dutch movieindustry. That'll be the end great dutch movies like de tweeling.

"De Tweeling" is more than just another WW II drama and truly adds something and is made interesting by a very good story.

The story is truly the power of this movie. It shows the perspective of WW II from the Dutch as well as the German side, which makes this movie really interesting and powerful. It shows how the twin sisters that already didn't had any contact for years are driven further out of each other because of WW II. It doesn't only show the Nazi-German military perspective of war but also that of the German civilians and in a way helps you to understand why so many Germans supported the Nazi's in WW II. It's a shame that there are still some "typical book elements" present in the movie that I sure work fine in the book but not in the movie, including the typical book ending (I say no more.).

The acting is for especially Dutch standards pretty high. Jeroen Spitzenberger acts magnificent but of course also the German actors pull of very well.

There are some excellent and impressive scene's. The movie doesn't show any gore or horror of WW II but focuses on the emotional effects of it on individuals and especially the twin sisters of course, of which one grew up in the Netherlands and the other in Germany. It doesn't only show the effects of the relationship between the two during the war but also long after it.

I even like it a bit better as "The Pianist".

9/10

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This is a beautiful Dutch movie. It is about two twin-sisters, around six years old, separated in 1926 because their real parents are dead. One of them (Lotte) lives in The Netherlands, she has a good and rich life. The other (Anna) lives in Nazi-Germany with Germans who do not take good care of her. They want to reach each other but the 'parents' make sure that does not happen.

In the beginning of the movie we switch from 1926 to the present a couple of times. Two old ladies in a Spa meet. The Dutch one is called Lotte and doesn't want to speak with the German one, Anna. What has happened? The movie shows us what happened. It is a sad story, a beautiful story as well. It could have been a very true story.

The lead actresses are great. Thekla Reuten and Nadja Uhl make sure that the sisters are lovely characters, you will like both of them and you feel sorry for both of them. They play the sisters when they are around 25 years old. The little girls playing the twins when they are six years old are amazing and lovely too. As the old ladies they are very touching. It is just beautiful.

With the perfect cast and its nice acting, a fine direction, a great cinematography and a very beautiful score this is one of the best Dutch films I have seen. I loved it and it is definitely worth watching it.

Normally I don't see movies as good as this one. I happened across this film one night when I had nothing to do. I saw the title and thought it would be a mushy story about twin sisters...all rainbows and glitter. I was pleasantly surprised and thought the whole concept behind the story was genius. Not only is the story wonderful the movie quality is wonderful. It is now ranked among my favorite films. This movie truly embraces what it was like to be on both sides of the war. I found myself sympathizing with Anna even though I feel as negatively as I do about Hitler and Nazi Germany. I also deeply sympathized with Lotte and the suffering she and her fiancé went threw. In the end I wanted them to put it all behind them and embrace each other again.

When their parents die, both twin sisters Lotte and Anna are seperated by their family. One of them is raised by a wealthy Dutch family and the other one by a German farmer family. They are not allowed to see or even write each other. Because they live in two different worlds they become two different women. The dutch girl is going to marry a Jew, while the German one falls in love with a SS-soldier. When they finally contact each other it turns out that they have grown apart too far, and a definite break seems inevitable. Will it ever be possible to become reconciled with each other?

Twin sisters is a beautiful movie that fully deservs the oscar nomination. It's not really another WWII movie as much people think, but more a touching story behind the actual events of the war.