5.8
“Deeply moving and emotionally layered.”
The Innocents (2016)
February 10, 20161h 55mFR
7.0
422 votes
Overview
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.
Director
Anne FontaineWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
French
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Revenue
$1.1M
Production Companies
France 2 CinémaMars FilmsSCOPE PicturesFrance 2Aeroplan FilmNC+
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Reno
8.0**When the house of peace was disturbed!** From the director Anne Fontaine. Like any of her works, this is another top class women oriented film. But it was partially based on the incredible true story. Partial means, no one knows what was the actual event. The director and her writers inspired by the diary the French doctor who worked for Red Cross in Poland at the end of the World War II, who wrote down her experience on it. So, with the small-small facts the story was built on for the film. Well done job by the cast and crew. Whenever you hear the word/abbreviation 'WWII', it always b…
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Wuchak
7.0**_When the soldiers of the Red Army are just as bad as the German occupiers_** Seven months after the end of the European theater of WW2, a nun from a convent in Poland seeks the aid of a French Red Cross worker, who’s helping French survivors of the concentration camps (Lou de Laâge). It turns out that some Russian soldiers paid a barbaric visit to the convent when they were taking over the territory months earlier. “The Innocents” (2016) is based on the true story of Madeleine Pauliac when she was working as a doctor in Poland, renamed Mathilde Beaulieu for the movie (Lou). It has a…
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