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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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Lore | Rotten Tomatoes (1) 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 Lore | Rotten Tomatoes (2) 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 Lore | Rotten Tomatoes (3) 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 Lore | Rotten Tomatoes (4) 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 Lore | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Dave Giannini InSession Film Lore is a movie that rewards patience. Feb 27, 2024 Full Review Lore | Rotten Tomatoes (6) 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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Karla F True stories from the last that educate, excite, scare and warn! Awesome. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/09/23 Full Review charles w WOW! One of the most powerful and tragic stories of survival I have ever watched. Rated 5/5 Stars • 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 3/5 Stars • 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 4.5/5 Stars • 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 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/29/21 Full Review Tim G Fascinating time period to examine. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/21 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
Rohfilm, Edge City Films, Porchlight Films

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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