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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 | Goran Visnjic | Michelle Dockery | Danuta Stenka | Maja Ostaszewska | Krzysztof Pieczyński | Jerzy Nowak | Rebecca Windheim | Sergei Novik-Marchenko | Paul Freeman | Leigh Lawson | Nathaniel Parker | Marcia Gay Harden | Olga Bołądź | Steve Speirs | Danny Webb | Iddo Goldberg | Scott Handy | Karolina Dryzner | Fiona Glascott