The Innocents

2016 115 min ★ 7.0 Drama, History

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.

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Cast

Lou de Laâge

Mathilde Beaulieu

Agata Buzek

Nun Maria

Agata Kulesza

Mother Superior

Vincent Macaigne

Samuel

Joanna Kulig

Nun Irena

Eliza Rycembel

Teresa

Katarzyna Dąbrowska

Nun Anna

Anna Próchniak

Zofia

Helena Sujecka

Ludwika

Mira Maludzińska

Bibiana

Details

Director

Anne Fontaine

Screenplay

Sabrina B. Karine

Tagline

"Deeply moving and emotionally layered."

Status

Released

Original Language

FR

Revenue

$1,063,893

Production

France 2 Cinéma, Mars Films, SCOPE Pictures, France 2, Aeroplan Film, NC+, Mandarin Cinéma

Reviews

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Reno

July 30, 2017

★ 8/10

**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...

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Wuchak

September 12, 2024

★ 7/10

**_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 t...