The Innocents
Les innocentes
2016, Film, 115 min, Drama, History, French, France, MoviePedia score 70
Deeply moving and emotionally layered.
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.
Directed by Anne Fontaine
Cast
- Lou de Laâge as Mathilde Beaulieu
- Agata Buzek as Maria
- Agata Kulesza as Mère Abesse
- Vincent Macaigne as Samuel
- Joanna Kulig as Irena
- Eliza Rycembel as Teresa
- Katarzyna Dabrowska as Anna
- Anna Próchniak as Zofia
- Helena Sujecka as Ludwika
- Mira Maluszinska as Bibiana
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