The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
“How did one woman save 2500 children?”
Synopsis
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who developed sympathy for Jews from an early age, influenced by her father, a physician who died of typhus he contracted while treating impoverished Jewish patients. When she first suggests rescuing Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her proposal is met with skepticism from her fellow social workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother, Janina.
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Principal cast & crew: 21
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Edited by Henk Van EeghenShot by Jerzy ZielinskiScored by Jan A P KaczmarekDesigned by Waldemar Kalinowski
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- Il coraggio di Irena Sendlerit
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21 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Anna Paquin
as Irena Sendler
Goran Visnjic
as Stefan Zgrzembski
Michelle Dockery
as Ewa Rozenfeld
Danuta Stenka
as Hanna Rozenfeld
Rebecca Windheim
as Karolina Rozenfeld
Sergei Novik Marchenko
as Jasio
Paul Freeman
as Monsignor Godlewski
Leigh Lawson
as Rabbi Rozenfeld
Nathaniel Parker
as Dr. Majkowski
Marcia Gay Harden
as Janina Krzyzanowska
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3Other crew
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