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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
Directed by John Kent Harrison
“How did one woman save 2500 children?”
Drama, War · 1h 36m
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Cast
Anna Paquin
Irena Sendler
Goran Višnjić
Stefan Zgrzembski
Michelle Dockery
Ewa Rozenfeld
Danuta Stenka
Hannah Rozenfeld
Maja Ostaszewska
Jadwiga
Krzysztof Pieczyński
Dr. Janusz Korczak
Jerzy Nowak
Old Rabbi
R
Rebecca Windheim
Karolina Rozenfeld
S
Sergei Novik-Marchenko
Jasio
Paul Freeman
Monsignor Godlewski
Leigh Lawson
Rabbi Rozenfeld
Nathaniel Parker
Dr. Majkowski
Crew
- Director
- John Kent Harrison
- Writer
- John Kent Harrison, Larry Spagnola
- Director of Photography
- Jerzy Zieliński
- Original Music Composer
- Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
- Editor
- Henk van Eeghen
- Producer
- Cameron Johann, Krzysztof Grabowski, Beata Pisula
Details
- Release date
- 2009-04-19
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Latvian, English, Russian, German
- Countries
- United States of America, Latvia, Poland, Canada, Lithuania
- Production
- Jeff Most Productions, CBS, Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Baltmedia, Most / Rice Productions, Forma Pro Films, Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny, Telekompaniya Klass!, K&K Film Selekt, Lithuanian Film Studio