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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
Directed by John Kent Harrison
Overview
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.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
Anna Paquin | Marcia Gay Harden | Goran Visnjic | Nathaniel Parker | Steve Speirs | Paul Freeman | Michelle Dockery | Danny Webb | Krzysztof Pieczyński | Leigh Lawson | Maja Ostaszewska | Danuta Stenka | Olga Bołądź | Iddo Goldberg | Scott Handy | Rebecca Windheim