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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

How did one woman save 2500 children?

7.3 average rating
7.3
Latvian / 96 MIN. / 2009

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Anna PaquinGoran VišnjićMichelle DockeryDanuta StenkaMaja OstaszewskaKrzysztof PieczyńskiJerzy NowakRebecca WindheimSergei Novik-MarchenkoPaul FreemanLeigh LawsonNathaniel ParkerMarcia Gay HardenOlga BołądźSteve SpeirsDanny WebbIddo GoldbergScott HandyKarolina DryznerFiona Glascott

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