![]() It is unclear in that moment if Lore wants to hug her or attack her for all that she has wrought. As the mother goes dressed in her brightest blue outfit to surrender herself to the Americans, Lore runs out to look upon the woman who gave her life one last time. Soon, the father has disappeared and Mutti is forced to abandon Lore to the welfare of her four young siblings: Liesel, twin boys Gunther (André Frid) and Jurgen (Mika Siedel) and newborn Peter (Nick Holaschke). His wife and Lore’s mother, Mutti (Ursina Lardi) is as repulsed by her husband as she is of her grim fate. It is unclear what role Vati, a Nazi officer, served in the Fuhrer’s machinations, but the ash of unknown origin that drifts like snow over the family’s nearby cabin insinuates the absolute worst and most heinous. For whatever their ages, childhood will end that day when their father (Hans-Jochen Wagner) comes home and implies the command’s desolation is imminent. One girl is in the prime of childhood and one is at the end, but both are ignorant of the blood soaked sand their idyllic life is built upon. Her pre-adolescent sister, Lisel (Nele Trebs) in bare feet skips along their family garden’s courtyard to the same words. In the movie’s first moments, Lore sits in a bathtub singing a playground rhyme to herself. For who is more innocent of the sins of their father than a group of small children oblivious to their parents’ crimes? Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) is an elder daughter who is barely a teenager, but she is forced to lead her mostly helpless siblings through a post-Hitler Germany that is only beginning to confront its own painful horrors. The Aussie filmmaker’s German language film, based on a novel by Rachel Seiffert, challenges the viewer to understand its German protagonists and their own ethical angst. This question of murky moral complicity is a provocative one that Cate Shortland muddies even further in the new release, Lore. How can a society remain silent as atrocities are committed in their name? It is meant to remark, with irony and disdain, on how so many of the German people disavowed responsibility for the war crimes committed by the Nazi government, especially in the concentration camps. The phrase came about in 1945 after the Allied forces carved the country of the Third Reich into four, each occupied by an Allied nation (the U.S., Great Britain, France and the U.S.S.R.). In his spare time, he is active in sports, especially as sailor in a youth class (29er).To this day, the German people, as well as the supposed civilized West, still must struggle with the “Good German” syndrome. In 2011 he appeared as Felix Hartung in the soccer-themed dramatic film, Lessons of a Dream, which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination as " Best Leading Young Actor in an International Feature Film". In 2010 he appeared in Rammbock and in the television crime series Inspektor Barbarotti – Mensch ohne Hund. ![]() Trebs previously played supporting roles in Lilly the Witch – The Dragon and the Magic Book (2008) Krupp – A German Family (2008), as Alfried Krupp (aged 10–13 years) and as Ferdinand in Michael Haneke's award-winning historical drama The White Ribbon (2009). His mother, Dorothea Trebs, is a talent agent, and his siblings Enno, Lilli, Nele, and Pepe are also young German actors. ![]() Trebs lives in a family with five children. Theo Trebs (born 6 September 1994) is a German actor, best known for his feature film roles as Ferdinand in the World War I period film The White Ribbon (2009), and as Felix in the dramatic soccer film Lessons of a Dream (2011).
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