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Play trailer Poster for Lore Released Feb 8, 2013 1h 49m Drama War Play Trailer Watchlist
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As Allied forces sweep across Germany, five children embark on a journey that challenges their notions of family, love and friendship.
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Newcomer Saskia Rosendahl gives an astonishingly assured performance in the title role, and director Cate Shortland establishes a delicate, disturbingly ominous tone in the powerful World War II drama Lore.

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Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune Lore, from Australian director Cate Shortland, proceeds like a long-ago fairy tale, dark-hued, grounded in real-life 20th-century horrors. Rated: 3/4 Jan 1, 2014 Full Review Roger Clarke Sight & Sound Lore is a akin to a bourgeois German version of Elem Klimov's 1985 Belarus-set Come and See, and it has some outstanding features. The star turn is the lurking cinematography of Adam Arkapaw. Jan 1, 2014 Full Review Anthony Quinn Independent (UK) The Australian director Cate Shortland has made a quite stunning film about the collapse of Nazi Germany, seen not from a Berlin bunker but through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Rated: 5/5 Jan 1, 2014 Full Review Annlee Ellingson CineWomen [Cate] Shortland get[s] up close and personal with intimate, handheld camerawork as Lore confronts what she’s been taught and her family’s legacy of fascism and genocide, blue eyes popping with judgment, hate, fear, confusion, and, finally, resolve. Jul 28, 2024 Full Review Dave Giannini InSession Film Lore is a movie that rewards patience. Feb 27, 2024 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com A film you simply don't want to miss. Rated: 3.5/4.0 Sep 14, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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charles w WOW! One of the most powerful and tragic stories of survival I have ever watched. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I didn't agree with the critics. The movie is ok but not a best picture foreign Oscar's; must been ok only year. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review peter w How to you summon up the resources to adapt to a complete overhaul of your life and values? Cate Shortland does not sugar-coat the personal re-evaluation that Lore faces when the structures that provided a privileged life crumbles away with the defeat and death of the Furer. There was likely nothing in her experience that could prepare Lore for the life and death struggle of fleeing on foot with four younger siblings to the safety of grandmother's house (who happened to bear more than some resemblance to the "bad wolf"). Nor was there any life experience that could help her see the Jewish traveler who helped them as anything but a pariah. But we are drawn in to watched the beginning of a transformation of values deftly managed by Saskia Rosendahl under the sympathetic direction of Shortland. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Jesse D A deeply tragic look at those dark days immediately following wwii. It is told from the point of view rarely seen. The losers. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/29/21 Full Review Tim G Fascinating time period to examine. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/21 Full Review Audience Member Captures the perspective of an early teen who has grown up in an ideology that is unraveling, that moment and phase of life combined with suddenly being thrust into a struggle for survival. Good on the nuances of guilt, innocence, and complicity, victim and perpetrator. The repressed emotion of the ending worked for me. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Cate Shortland

Director

Mika Seidel

Jürgen

Ursina Lardi

Mutti

Hans-Jochen Wagner

Vati

Sven Pippig

Bauer

Philip Wiegratz

Helmut

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Synopsis As Allied forces sweep across Germany, five children embark on a journey that challenges their notions of family, love and friendship.
Director
Cate Shortland
Producer
Benny Drechsel, Karsten Stoter, Liz Watts, Paul Welsh
Screenwriter
Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee
Distributor
Music Box Films
Production Co
Porchlight Films, Edge City Films, Rohfilm
Genre
Drama, War
Original Language
German
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 8, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$968.9K
Runtime
1h 49m
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