2014
25m

Summary Drama series telling the story of WW1 as seen through the eyes of children. View more details

2014
25m

Small Hands in a Big War

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Eloi Christ Leon Bertoni Constantin Lücke Lydia Maria Makrides

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Genres : War

Release date : Apr 26, 2014

Countries of origin : Germany

Official sites : official site

Language : German

Filming locations : Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Production companies : LOOKSfilm

Summary Drama series telling the story of WW1 as seen through the eyes of children. View more details

Details

Genres : War

Release date : Apr 26, 2014

Countries of origin : Germany

Official sites : official site

Language : German

Filming locations : Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Production companies : LOOKSfilm

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Sarah Soetaert in Small Hands in a Big War (2014)

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Episode 1 • Apr 26, 2014

The Attack

1914, the European cascade of war declarations is welcomed by young patriots hoping for glory. Although under legal age to join the army, French schoolboy Lucien Bonnet braves father's desperate attempts to talk some survival sense into his romantic nationalist head. Under a fake identity, the nave passes recruitment, pretending to seek revenge for his 'family' being bombarded in German-occupied Belfort. Only when a real family friend, who played along, falls under German fire before his eyes, he resolves to dump his uniform and return home. He is however caught by his severe captain, who orders a firing squad without trial for the deserter. Luckily his adult comrades arrange for him to escape, officially shot.

Episode 2 • May 03, 2014

The Escape

Life in occupied countries, like nearly all of Belgium since the German invasion, was hard for those civilians who hadn't fled, due to requisitioning, rationing, all kinds of regulations and hefty fines. Some were deported as forced laborers, some caught smuggling or electocuted at the Duch border. In the story, a girl's family is blackmailed to pay a huge ransom to avoid child deportation, driving them to smuggling, with tragic results, also for the German troops.

Episode 3 • May 10, 2014

The Pain

Episode 4 • May 17, 2014

The Lie

In a Scottish town near Edinburg, most young men volunteer spontaneously for imaginary soldiering glory, especially in 'friends battalions' based on sports teams and so on, soon finding the trenches are a hellish bid for seemingly senseless death. Only Alistair, who prepares for university, wants to stay and mind his blind aunt, but badgered by rascals and the dreaded white chicken feather, ends up joining and filling the ever-growing list of French/Belgian front casualties. Villagers are confronted with corpses closer to home due to the germen zeppelin attacks.

Episode 5 • May 24, 2014

The Mountain

Although Italy was Austria-Hungary's sworn ally before the war, it soon switched to the Allied side, hoping it could quickly steal grab part of the Alpine border lands, notably Souther Tyrol, while the Hapsburg troops were occupied fighting Russians and Serbians. But the 'civilian' locals put up a stern defense, making best use of superior knowledge of the merciless mountains. The Italians get pinned down and are forced to destroy the villages they wanted to annex. Austrian boy Tobias Klein is seized with his beloved donkey, forced at gunpoint to guide Italian lieutenant Lorenzo Durante's troops, but is at least as desperate not to help them kill his family and friends. Cold, avalanches and fighting, including tunnels to plant explosives, exact an even worse toll then the trenches war.

Episode 6 • May 31, 2014

The Odyssey

Supplies by sea were vital for the warring parties, so they try to sink each-others ships, notably by German submarines, causing tragic shortages of strategic and ordinary goods, even food and fertilizer. Neutral countries could trade with both sides, but as the war progressed, Germany resorted to a total blockade of the British island. The story shows an Aericna family returning home from the Netherlands over England by Dutch ship. Aboard, German deserter stowaway Joachim Herz is found, hiding him proves too dangerous.

Episode 7 • Jun 07, 2014

The Revolution

After the Austrian troops wrecked his home and killed his family, orphan Misha Pterowski happily volunteers in the czar's army, a common practice. the war goes terribly, yet he can't understand that adult soldiers applaud the republican revolution and peace with the axis powers. He gets caught in conflicting loyalties with most terrible consequences after the Bolshevik second revolution overturns the social and military order.

Episode 8 • Jun 14, 2014

The Punishment

Although an armistice ends fighting on the front, millions of (notably German) POWs remain captive during the peace negotiations, some even afterwards, as part of the 'war reparations' converted in kind. Thus Peter Fuchs is assigned to the war widow Bonnet's farm, where the orphaned kids initially bitterly resent even feeding the hardworking young man they associate with father's killer, yet will end up as a near-father figure by before his release.

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