The Big Secret (2014)

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German title The big secret
Original title Oorlogs secret
Country of production Netherlands
original language Dutch , German
Publishing year 2014
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
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Director Dennis Bots
script Karin van Holst
production David-Jan Bijker
music André Dziezuk
camera Rolf Dekens
cut Peter Alderliesten
occupation

The big secret (original title: Oorlogsgeheimen , English: Secrets of War ) is a Dutch film drama for cinemas from 2014 based on a novel by the children's book author Jacques Vriens from 2007.

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In a small village in Holland in 1943, the German occupation and the war penetrate deeper and deeper into children's lives. The two twelve-year-old boys Lambert and Tuur are best friends, although Lambert's father sympathizes with the Germans and Tuur's family with the resistance. At first, the boys do not tell anyone about the hiding place of a downed Allied pilot that they found together in a cave system. However, after Tuur discovers that families from the neighborhood are being deported in freight wagons, he becomes radicalized. He finally understands that his parents and older brother are active in the resistance against the Germans. He begins to see a traitor in Lambert, whose father has since become mayor by the Germans. When Tuur flirts with his new classmate Maartje and turns away from Lambert, Lambert reveals that Maartje's host family is hiding a pig from the occupiers. Little does he suspect that he is putting Maartje - whose real name is Tamar and Jewish - and putting her host family in mortal danger. When Tuur follows the arrested Tamar to Maastricht and is arrested himself, Lambert promises his father that he will join the Nazi youth if he gets Tuur out of prison. Shortly after Tuur's release, Maartje's host father betrayed the other members of the resistance under torture. Although the entire village is surrounded by German soldiers, Tuur and his family are able to flee to Belgium via the caves. Lambert supports them in this. The fate of Tamar and the other villagers remains open.

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The film won: The Audience Award of the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) 2015, the Golden Castle Best Film of the Castellinaria International Festival of Young Cinema 2014 , the Adult's Jury Award in the Live-Action Feature category of the Chicago International Children's Film Festival 2014 and the Audience Choice Award in the Best Feature category of the Stony Brook Film Festival 2015 .

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