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Little Tom Thumb (Le petit poucet)

German title: Der Däumling
Spain title: Érase una vez
Greek title: Ο μικρούλης Τομ
Russian title: Мальчик с пальчик
Original title: Le petit poucet

Alternative titles:
Tom Thumb | O mikroulis Tom | Ο μικρουλης Τομ

Child movie – France
Production year: 2000
Movie length: 91 minutes

Director: Olivier Dahan
Writer: Charles Perrault, Olivier Dahan

Movie description:

Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale »Le petit poucet« by Charles Perrault.

A poor couple has to bring up five sons and decides on how to save money ... by taking them far enough into the woods to get lost and never find their way back. But the boys manage it after experiencing some fantastic adventures.

Once upon a time, in a far off land, there was a little boy named Tom Thumb. He lived on a farm with his parents and many brothers, all of whom despised him because he was so small and puny. Times were hard and, during a long war, the farm was raided by soldiers, who took all they could find, leaving Tom’s family even more poor and desolate than before. Realising that they all faced starvation, Tom’s parents took their children into the forest one day, and abandoned them there. The children not only had marauding wolves to be afraid of, but also the warriors of a fearsome soldier with an iron leg. But the greatest of all their fears was the child-eating Ogre ...

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