Movie: The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

Top 10 Billed Cast

Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin

Irena Sendler

Goran Višnjić
Goran Višnjić

Stefan Zgrzembski

Michelle Dockery
Michelle Dockery

Ewa Rozenfeld

Danuta Stenka
Danuta Stenka

Hannah Rozenfeld

Maja Ostaszewska
Maja Ostaszewska

Jadwiga

Krzysztof Pieczyński
Krzysztof Pieczyński

Dr. Janusz Korczak

Jerzy Nowak
Jerzy Nowak

old rabbi

Rebecca Windheim
Rebecca Windheim

Karolina Rozenfeld

Sergei Novik-Marchenko
Sergei Novik-Marchenko

Jasio

Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman

Monsignor Godlewski

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    The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

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    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.

  • Release Date

    2009-04-19

  • Average

    7.2

  • Rating:

    3.6 starts
  • Tagline

    How did one woman save 2500 children?

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    LatviešuEnglishPусскийDeutsch
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