Anna van der Heide
Director
Small Hands in a Big War (2014)
Season 1
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.
Released April 27, 2014
Episode 25 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, Drama, War
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series
Network: ARTE
S1E1 - 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.
April 27, 2014, midnight
S1E2 - 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.
May 4, 2014, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
May 11, 2014, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
May 18, 2014, midnight
S1E5 - The Mountain
May 25, 2014, midnight
S1E6 - 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.
June 1, 2014, midnight
S1E7 - 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.
June 8, 2014, midnight
S1E8 - 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.
June 15, 2014, midnight
Network: ARTE
Episode Runtime: 25 min.
Season Runtime: 200 min.
Released: April 27, 2014
Last Air Date: June 15, 2014, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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