LORE

LORE, 2012
Australia | 35mm, Color, 108’ | German
Director: Cate Shortland
Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, André Frid

Australia’s Oscar candidate for 2013 is about young Lore, who, after her Nazi parents’ arrest by the Allied forces in 1945, takes her siblings on a 900 kilometre long journey to her grandmother in Hamburg. A Jewish refugee named Thomas whom she meets in the midst of post-war turmoil, poverty and sorrow turns Lore’s world upside-down. In order to stay alive on this dangerous journey, Lore has to rely on a person whom she was taughtto hate. This is a drama about post-war sufferings and hardships of growing against a changing world.