"Lore"

(Vatican Radio) As Fr Peter Malone, Vatican Radio's film critic, tells Linda Bordoni, this is director Cate Shortland's first feature film since she won so many 2004 Australian Film Institute awards for her debut feature film, "Somersault".

"Lore" - Fr Peter explains - is quite an unanticipated follow-up in terms of story, themes and the decision to film this German story in Germany and in German.

The film focuses on Lore - Hannelore - the eldest daughter of five children. Their parents are Germans, the father having fought in Belarus. There are glimpses of swastikas and pictures of Hitler. Then comes the news that Hitler is dead...

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