Lore (2012)

As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.

Director:

Cate Shortland

Writers:

Cate Shortland, Robin Mukherjee

Stars:

Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs

34 wins & 35 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Saskia Rosendahl	...	Hannelore Dressler
Nele Trebs	...	Liesel
Mike Weidner	...	Junger deutscher Soldat
Ursina Lardi	...	Mutti
Hans-Jochen Wagner	...	Vati
Nick Holaschke	...	Baby Peter (as Nick Leander Holaschke)
André Frid	...	Gunter Dressler
Mika Seidel	...	Jürgen Dressler
Sven Pippig	...	Farmer
Philip Wiegratz	...	Helmut
Katrin Pollitt	...	Farmer's Wife
Hendrik Arnst	...	Ox Cart Man
Claudia Geisler-Bading	...	Ox Cart Woman (as Claudia Geisler)
Kai-Peter Malina	...	Thomas (as Kai Malina)
Ulrike Medgyesy	...	Junge Frau mit Baby

Storyline

As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.

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Plot Keywords:

refugee | murder of a child | nazi | survival | world war two | 

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Taglines:

When your life is a lie, who can you trust?

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Genres:

Drama | History | Romance | Thriller | War

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Australia]

Country:

Germany Australia UK

Language:

German English

Release Date:

20 September 2012 (Australia)

Also Known As:

Лоре

Filming Locations:

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

€4,300,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$31,498, 8 February 2013, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$968,879, 30 June 2013

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rohfilm,Edge City Films,Porchlight Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Despite spending time living in Berlin and directing the movie where the actors performed completely in German, director Cate Shortland doesn't speak the language.

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Goofs

The German "das Baby" or "the baby" is used often and is in fact a recent Anglicism, and like much of the script, a word the Germans wouldn't have used in this period.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Vati: We can only take what fits in the truck.
Mutti: I'm not talking about the damn truck!
Vati: [Lore walks into the room] Hey, here she is! My girl. Come here.

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Connections

Featured in Film '72: Episode dated 13 February 2013 (2013)

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Soundtracks

Brüderchen, komm tanz mit mir
Composed by Engelbert Humperdinck
Performed by Saskia Rosendahl

User Reviews

You have to be patient with this movie

It's a punchline movie.

The ending ties it up well and puts it in proper perspective. Human perspective.

The movie, for me, is largely symbolic, archetypical. Lore is not really a person she IS the immediate post-war Germany.

Everything that she experiences, all her opinions, all the opinions she is exposed to and indoctrinated with, are the points of view of millions of the German populace.

How she deals with it, or denies it is how Germany dealt with and denied it. The 'it' being the entire ethos that permitted/enabled WWII.

In a sense all cultures are a form of mass hysteria, mass hypnotism. Societies indoctrinate as part of their nature, actually part of their definition is the values with which they indoctrinate their populace.

If the values are extreme and violent, the populace often follows. It the society fails at its aims and is physically destroyed, then the population becomes valueless and must die or reinvent itself.

Post WWI German society didn't die, so this is a movie about the pressures, the pressure cooker, in which gave birth to its reinvention.

So, as a piece of symbolic representation, it's magnificent.

There are no plot holes, every bit of dialog, every image, in necessary for understanding.

And patience is required. The viewer assembles all the images, all of Lore's perceptions.

And the pressure cooker cooks.