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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)

Film · 2009 · 96 min · NR · Drama · War

How did one woman save 2500 children?

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.

Directed by John Kent Harrison

Starring Anna Paquin, Goran Višnjić, Michelle Dockery, Danuta Stenka, Maja Ostaszewska, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Jerzy Nowak, Rebecca Windheim

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First release anywhere19 April 2009

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