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In Warsaw, December 1945, a nun known as Sister Teresa approaches a young French female student doctor, Mathilde Beaulieu, serving with an army unit. She says there are sick women in need and is not satisfied with a referral to the Polish Red Cross.
Poland, winter of 1945. Mathilde Beaulieu (Lou de Lâage) is a young intern working with a branch of the French Red Cross. They are on a mission to find, treat and repatriate French survivors of the German camps. One day, a Polish nun arrives in the hospital.
Nov 11, 2016 · The young, atheist doctor reluctantly agrees and, upon arriving at the convent, is confronted by a shocking discovery: said sister is in labour, while several other nuns are also pregnant, the victims of a hideous cruelty.
Jul 1, 2016 · Serene, austere Benedictine nuns sing sweetly in the quiet stillness of morning—until a piercing scream echoes through the stone hallways, sending a chill. Turns out, it’s coming from an extremely pregnant, young nun who’s on the verge of giving birth—and she’s not alone.
Jun 30, 2016 · Mathilde (Lou de Laage), the young French Red Cross doctor at the center of The Innocents, is in late-1945 Poland to tend to injured French POWs, patching them up so they can be sent home. She...
Jun 30, 2016 · The film, based on real events in postwar Poland, depicts how atrocities test the faith of Catholic nuns in their own convent.
In December 1945, a Red Cross doctor (Lou de Laâge) tries to help a group of pregnant Benedictine nuns at a convent in Warsaw, Poland.
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The Innocents: Directed by Anne Fontaine. With Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne. 1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Jan 31, 2016 · Hope and horror are commingled to quietly moving effect in “The Innocents,” a restrained but cumulatively powerful French-Polish drama about the various crises of faith that emerge when a house...
When a panicked Benedictine nun appears at the clinic begging Mathilde to follow her back to the convent, what she finds there is shocking: a holy sister about to give birth and several more in advanced stages of pregnancy.
