| | A Little Princess Sara (1985) Little Sara is the dearest treasure of her loving, wealthy father who has lost his wife when Sara was still a little child. She has grown up in India but she is going to go to school in England. So it happens that in winter 1885 she enters Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies in London. Her father must return to India and Sara tries to get used to her new surroundings. Although Miss Minchin feels a grudge against Sara due to an unfortunate incident, she uses her as a show pupil for the seminary. For Sara's father is wealthier than all other fathers and Sara wears the most expensive and elegant frocks and even has got her own carriage. No wonder she is envied by Lavinia, the oldest pupil in class and former teacher's pet. But Sara also gains good friends: her schoolmates Ermengarde and Lottie, Becky the scullery-maid and Peter, who drives her carriage. So it can be said that Sara feels quite comfortable at the seminary. But Sara's life is going to change completely. On one day, her birthday, the horrible news of the ruin and even death of her father reach her. Sara doesn't have a penny to call her own and with her father gone there's nobody left on the world whom she belongs to. Miss Minchin takes the chance and makes Sara a scullery-maid just like Becky. From now on she has to work hard for the seminary and Miss Minchin and Lavinia are not the ones who spare indigent drudges. However, her friends don't let her down and Sara fights hard and manages to master her new life and with her imagination, sharp mind and inner strength, to indeed stay A Little Princess inside. A Little Princess Sara is an anime based on the classic children's novel 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater (WMT) line and was shown in Japan in 1985.
| Tagline : | Sarah, ang munting prinsesa. |
| Also Known As : | | * Die kleine Prinzessin Sara (Alternative Language) | | * La princesa Sara (Alternative Language) | | * Lovely Sara (Alternative Language) |
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