World War II · Film · 2012
Lore
When their Nazi parents are taken away after the surrender, a teenage girl must lead her four younger siblings on foot across a defeated, divided Germany to their grandmother's house by the North Sea.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 2 places.
Stop 1: Black Forest
Key location
Hidden in a forest cabin, the children are left alone when their mother turns herself in, and Lore decides they must walk north.
Stop 2: Husum, North Sea coast
After weeks on the road and a journey that shatters everything she was taught, Lore reaches her grandmother's house.
What really happened
After Germany's unconditional surrender in May 1945 the country was split into American, British, French and Soviet occupation zones. Transport had collapsed, millions of refugees, freed forced laborers and camp survivors were on the roads, and the Allies arrested Nazi officials and SS members by the tens of thousands.
To confront ordinary Germans with the crimes of the regime, the Allies posted photographs from the liberated camps in towns and villages. The film, adapted from Rachel Seiffert's novel The Dark Room, follows fictional children raised in Nazi ideology as they discover what their parents served.
Where to watch
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Full details
- Original title
- Lore
- Directed by
- Cate Shortland
- Countries
- Australia, Germany, United Kingdom
- Languages
- German
- Released
- 2012
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Western Europe
- Themes
- Home front
