8.Lore

Australia

Director: Cate Shortland

Australian film Lore is directed by Cate Shortland. Young girl Lore is the daughter of a Nazi officer and has done herself proud from a yound age, she knows next to nothing about the encounters of the Jewish people until the end of the Second World War when Germany is left in ruins and her parents have gone to prison successively.

Lore migrates with her younger brother and sister. In the process of migration, Lore witnesses the famine caused by war along with the destitution and homelessness, giving her an extreme shock. The film examines the enormous harm caused by the Second World War on everyone including boys and girls with Nazi parents, thorugh the angle of the post-war experiences of these children of Nazi parentage.

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