This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Lore and her four brothers and sisters are forced to embark on a very dangerous journey across a devastated Germany during the second world war. Left orphans after their parents were sent to concentration camps, the five must rely on a mysterious person in order to survive the harsh conditions they're about to face on their way to a distant Hamburg, where their grandmother lived.It's a very dramatic movie which describes in detail the cruel life that German people were living. Although I am interested in history and also fascinated by it, this movie wasn't truly capable of presenting its story in a way that can capture my attention. It is boring most of the time and inexplicably graphic. I understand that it contributes to a very dramatic atmosphere but I think that this part is exaggerated (this isn't a horror movie after all). I enjoyed the main actors but Lore's character simply made me scratch my head numerous times. She makes so many decisions that I simply cannot understand while her act in the finale is as stupid and as idiotic as the finale itself. She worked so hard to get there and still wasn't happy? It was her choice! Why wasn't she happy? Why? I did enjoy the decor and the landscapes which were well chosen and described but the overall feeling left by this movie was unsatisfying.It had potential and a good idea but they weren't fully exploited. Furthermore, from what I understood that happened in the novel it's based on ("The Dark Room" by Rachel Seiffert), the ending isn't as it is depicted in the movie, the one from the book being different in a better and much more interesting way. An average movie and nothing more.

Lore isn't a bad movie. If it was not for the ending that I didn't really like I would have scored it a bit more. But the story, the filming and the actors were all good. It's a nice example that your kids will grew up like the parents learn them to behave. Just like dogs, you don't have mean dogs in the beginning, you have mean dogs because of their education. In this case Lore, the eldest of a whole bunch of kids, learns from her Nazi parents to hate Jews. And the rest of the story is the long journey across Germany after the defeat of the Nazis, where she has to rely on a Jew, the human being she's supposed to hate. It's a lesson for everybody, that the nationality, religion, or color of your skin don't matter. There's good and evil in any race or religion. Just don't assume everybody is bad because that makes you the bad one. Lore shows the cruel times people had to endure in wartime and even after the war. Not a bad movie at all.

As the Allies close in, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) and her Nazi parents try to hide in the countryside. Her parents are fighting. Her new life is rustic. First her father abandons them. Then her mother leaves telling her that the Allies kill the children. Finally they are kicked out of the farm by the owner. She has to lead her four younger siblings to their grandmother in Hamburg. The world is a dangerous place filled with desperate people. They are helped out by Holocaust survivor Thomas but she is conflicted about the parasitic Jew.This is a little thought provoking movie. It's a fascinating journey of a young woman trying to come to terms with the lies of her parents. It's not simplified. There are twists and turns. They are not out of line. The journey probably needs a few more dangerous moments to elevate the tension. For the most parts, it's a slow simmering tension. This is more about Lore's personal journey of her thinking about the war and her parents.

"The Bridge", "the Downfall" and "A woman in Berlin" can be put on the same line as this. The fall of the Third-Reich.Here we follow Lore, a daughter of an high ranking Officer in the German army. It starts of still in the Third-Reich. As the family runs from the allied, they are confronted by challenges. As they hear their leader die, the world around them crumbles.Its really a sad story. The children really don't know what just happened. As any other movie. 6 stars. But i find the view of the German suffering interesting. So i give 10 stars, because this one is underrated by critics.