4 real historical locations · Germany
An Australian-German film follows a teenage girl, the daughter of a senior SS officer, who leads her younger siblings across a destroyed Germany in 1945 after her parents' arrest. Her world view is shattered as she discovers the truth about what her parents' regime did.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany.
Fourteen-year-old Lore leads her younger siblings across a devastated Germany to reach their grandmother in Hamburg after their SS-officer parents are arrest...
Germany's collapse in May 1945 left millions displaced. Thousands of SS families faced arrest under Allied denazification. Lore's journey from Bavaria to Hamburg represents the experience of Germans confronting the re...
View location →After Germany's defeat, Lore's SS officer father is arrested and her mother gives herself up. Lore, 14, leads her four younger siblings on a 900-km trek nort...
Millions of Germans were displaced in the chaotic final months of the war and its aftermath. Children orphaned or separated from parents were common. Germany processed 12 million displaced persons by 1950.
View location →Lore and the children pass through the Black Forest crossing between Allied occupation zones, encountering the ruins of Nazi ideology in the faces of those w...
The Black Forest area fell in the French occupation zone. The film was shot in Germany and adapted from Rachel Seiffert's 2001 novel. It forces its protagonist — raised on Nazi mythology — to see the truth.
View location →The children reach their grandmother's house in Hamburg after weeks of travel — but liberation brings no comfort. Lore's worldview has been dismantled; the G...
Hamburg was devastated by Operation Gomorrah (July 1943), which killed over 37,000 civilians. By 1945 the city was rubble. British forces took control in May 1945.
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