the first stop for film and moving image in cornwall and the south west

cert 15, 120 minutes.

£ 4.50

director: Ben Sombogaart

with Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl,Ellen Vogel, Gudrun Okras, Jeroen Spitzenberger

Sat 25, Mon 27, Wed 28 June 6pm
Fri 24, Sun 26, Tues 28, Thur 30 June 8.30pm

Based o­n the bestselling Dutch novel by Tessa de Loo, Twin Sisters tells the story of Anna and Lotte who, following the death of their parents in Cologne in 1925 are separated.Anna is claimed by her impoverished Catholic uncle and aunt and forced to work o­n their farm in the German countryside; the consumptive Lotte goes to middle class relatives in Holland and Lotte's new parents hide her letters to Anna and refuse to give Anna's guardians their address. When they meet later in life they have to try to reconcile the many differences that have separated them over the yeras and through a world war that placed them o­n opposite sides.

Twin Sisters trailer

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