The leading roles are played by Pippa Allen, Maas Bronkhuyzen, and Joes Brauers.
In July 2015, the audience of the Stony Brook Film Festival in New York awarded "Best Picture" to Secrets of War.
[2][3] At first the boys don't tell anyone about the hiding place of a downed Allied pilot in a tunnel system that they found together.
Shortly after Tuur's release, Maartje's host father, under torture, betrays the other members of the resistance.
Although the entire village is surrounded by German soldiers, Tuur and his family are able to flee to Belgium via the tunnels.