The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

21.7. 22:00
Clover Channel
120 minutes
2009
Drama / War

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.

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2009
Drama / War

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.

Creators

John Kent Harrison, Larry Spagnola

Cast

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