The Innocents
– Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. ..
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
10 Feb 2016
French, Polish, Russian
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Anne Fontaine
Sabrina B. Karine (scenario), Alice Vial (scenario), Anne Fontaine (adaptation), Pascal Bonitzer (adaptation), Philippe Maynial (based on an original concept created by)
Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Poland, winter of 1945. Mathilde Beaulieu (Lou de Lâage) is a young intern working with a branch of the French Red Cross. They are on a mission to find, treat and repatriate French survivors of the German camps. One day, a Polish nun arrives in the hospital. In very poor French, she begs Mathilde to come to her convent. Mathilde life and beliefs change when she discovers the advanced state of pregnancy that affect several of the Sisters of the convent just outside the hospital where she performs.
3 wins & 12 nominations.