The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

• 7.2 Drama
• 2009-04-19
• 95 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Anna Paquin (Irena Sendler) Goran Visnjic (Stefan Zgrzembski) Michelle Dockery (Ewa Rozenfeld) Danuta Stenka (Hannah Rozenfeld) Maja Ostaszewska (Jadwiga) Krzysztof Pieczyński (Dr. Janusz Korczak) Jerzy Nowak (old rabbi) Rebecca Windheim (Karolina Rozenfeld) Sergei Novik-Marchenko (Jasio) Paul Freeman (Monsignor Godlewski)

Director:

John Kent Harrison

Writer:

John Kent Harrison Larry Spagnola