The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

Name: The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Uploaded: 2009-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 96 min
Description: 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.

7.25
January 2009
96 min

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.

Type:
MOVIE
Country:
US
Genres:
Drama, War
Release:
April 2009
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
Cast:
Anna Paquin, Goran Višnjić, Michelle Dockery, Danuta Stenka, Maja Ostaszewska, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Jerzy Nowak, Rebecca Windheim, Sergei Novik-Marchenko, Paul Freeman, Leigh Lawson, Nathaniel Parker, Marcia Gay Harden, Olga Bołądź, Steve Speirs, Danny Webb, Iddo Goldberg, Scott Handy, Karolina Dryzner, Fiona Glascott
Tags:
nazi, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, biography, based on true story, historical drama, 1940s, war drama

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

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