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1982 in film

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 Australian animated film. It was written by Elizabeth Kata

Elizabeth Kata

Elizabeth Katayama was an Australian writer under the pseudonym Elizabeth Kata, best known for Be Ready with Bells and Drums , which was made into the award-winning film A Patch of Blue ....

 and directed by Yoram Gross

Yoram Gross

Yoram Gross is an Australian producer of children’s and family entertainment. The company is best known for producing Blinky Bill and Dot and the Kangaroo.- History :...

. Unlike Yoram Gross's other works, this film deals with more mature subjects.

Plot

The story is about a little girl during the beginning of the Second World War. When the German soldiers invade, she and her family are forced to hide in the woods. When her Grandmother gets sick, her Father goes into town for medicine and disappears. Sarah goes out to pick berries and when she returns, the rest of her family is gone. Sarah is forced to survive alone in the woods with only the animals for company. One day she sees some resistance fighters attempt to destroy a bridge the Nazis use to transport weapons. When their attempt fails, she decides to destroy the bridge herself, hoping that her actions may end the war. Over time she is successful, but afterwards sadly realizes that what she has done will not end the war and walks away into the forest.

See also

• List of animated feature films
• Grave of the Fireflies
  Grave of the Fireflies
  is a 1988 Japanese animated war tragedy film written and directed by Isao Takahata. This is the first film produced by Shinchosha, who hired Studio Ghibli to do the animation production work...
  
  , a Japanese animated film that deals with a similar subject.