Small Hands in a Big War (2014)
Synopsis
Small Hands In A Big War is the first docudrama bringing WWI to a young audience. In each episode we visit a different child, in a different country. We experience what the war was like for him or her related with one big topic: propaganda, revolution, honour etc.
First Air Date: 2014-04-27
Last Air Date: 2014-06-15
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 8
Networks: SRF 1, ARTE, ARTE
Top Cast
- Eloi Christ as Lucien Bonnet
- Dolores Bouckaert as Georgette Reynders
- Sarah Soetaert as Margot Verbeek
- Holger Daemgen as Dr. Ernst Wurzinger
- Hannah Ehrlichmann as Luise Hartmann
- Lydia Maria Makrides as Frida Hartmann
- Alexander Pensel as Ulrich Fischer
- Jens Schäfer as Konrad Krauss
- Dolina MacLennan as Gloria MacMillan
- Tony de Maeyer as Kapitän Pronk
Seasons
Season 1 (2014)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Attack
An underage French schoolboy is full of patriotic enthusiasm at the start of the war. Against the will of his parents he signs up. His romantic dreams of honour soon give way to disillusionment with modern warfare.
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Ep. 2: The Escape
A poor Flemish girl is caught stealing. The German occupying forces punish her severely: four months in prison or an impossibly large fine. She flees in secret and passes an electrified security fence at the Belgian border.
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Ep. 3: The Pain
A German girl helps her older sister, who is taking care of wounded soldiers. When the senior doctor refuses to treat a poison-gas victim, she decides to help the soldier on her own in secret and manages to save him.
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Ep. 4: The Lie
A shepherd from South Tyrol is forced to guide Italian soldiers, who are attacking his homeland, through the Alps. With talent, luck and teamwork they survive the dangers of the high mountains and even an avalanche.
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Ep. 5: The Mountain
No overview for this episode.
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Ep. 6: The Odyssey
A twelve-year old American girl flees with her parents from the war in Europe. They board a Dutch freighter which is to bring them to America. On board, the girl discovers a stowaway. The captain wants to catch him.
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Ep. 7: The Revolution
A ten-year old boy loses his parents in the war. The only thing left to him is his belief in the power of Czarist Russia. He finds refuge in the Russian army and comes to the Eastern Front.
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Ep. 8: The Punishment
After losing her husband in the Great War, a French mother finds she can no longer cope with the family farm. She only manages to do so when a German prisoner-of-war is assigned to her as a labourer.
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