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Directed by Cate Shortland | 109 mins | 2012
Cate Shortland followed her moody and startling feature debut, "Somersault" (2004), with another bruising story of a teen girl expelled from home—in this case, by history in the making. Abandoned by her high-level Nazi parents in the wake of Hitler’s death, the eponymous Lore (Saskia Rosendahl), together with her four younger siblings, flees the family home in Bavaria, commencing a darkly revelatory cross-country journey.
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