Based on one of the three sections of The Dark Room, Rachel Seifert's Booker-shortlisted novel and winner of the 2001 Guardian first novel award, Lore is the affecting story of Hannelore, a German teenager conducting her younger sister and three small brothers (one of them a baby) across Germany at the end of the second world war. Their father, an SS officer deeply involved with the Final Solution, and their equally complicit mother, have fled. We see everything through Lore's adolescent eyes as she shepherds the children to their grandmother's home outside Hamburg, confronting a devastated country along the way and coming to terms with her father's crimes and a nation's guilt. In the course of this nightmare journey she witnesses robbery, death and degradation, experiences hunger, fear and bewilderment and develops a sense of responsibility. It has the feeling of a dream vividly but fragmentarily recalled, and there's no sentimental ending to suggest it's been a healing experience. It isn't exactly a profound film, but Saskia Rosendahl's performance has considerable depth, and she interacts admirably with her siblings.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/24/lore-review-saskia-rosendahl
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