Twin Sisters

Synopsis

Twin sisters, Lotte and Anna, long to reunite after being cruelly separated as children before the war. While Lotte is brought up rich and educated in neutral Holland, the other grows up poor in a Germany increasingly in the grip of Hitler's fascism.
It is not until they are adults that they manage to find each other again, but with the war now on the way, they discover some uncomfortable differences between them that become harder and harder to ignore.
At first they overlook these differences, but when Lotte tragically loses her Jewish fiance in a concentration camp, and then discovers her own sister's husband was a member of the SS, it seems that their lives will never again be reconciled. Can forgiveness ever be possible now?

Biography

BEN SOMBOGAART was born in 1947 in Amsterdam. Graduate of the Netherlands Film and
Television Academy '73. Working as a free-lance director, Sombogaart has made many documentary films both in Holland and abroad. He originated and directed several TV-drama series and feature-films. He has also been involved in developing the children’s programming for VPRO TV and for Bos Bros Film- Tv Productions/AVRO TV.