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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

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.

Release: 2009

Rating: 7.3

Genre: Drama, War

Duration: 96 min

Country: 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

Cast

Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin

as Irena Sendler

Goran Višnjić

Goran Višnjić

as Stefan Zgrzembski

Michelle Dockery

Michelle Dockery

as Ewa Rozenfeld

Danuta Stenka

Danuta Stenka

as Hannah Rozenfeld

Maja Ostaszewska

Maja Ostaszewska

as Jadwiga

Krzysztof Pieczyński

Krzysztof Pieczyński

as Dr. Janusz Korczak

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