Danielle Steel appears to be the presiding deity for this tiring second world war drama from Holland which was a best foreign film Oscar nominee. Twin sisters in 1920s Germany are separated by two wings of a quarrelling family when their sainted Papi dies. Anna goes to live with a poor Catholic farming family; delicate Lotte is spirited away to a moneyed Protestant household in Holland. The storm-clouds of war gather. Anna marries an SS officer. Lotte gets engaged to a Jew. The bonds of sisterhood are torn apart by the forces of history and, indeed, the forces of cliche. In keeping with its quaintly picturesque period approach, the film appears to have been developed in cold tea.