The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
How did one woman save 2500 children?
2009-04-19 | 95 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Anna PaquinIrena Sendler
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Marcia Gay HardenJanina Krzyżanowska
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Goran VisnjicStefan
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Nathaniel ParkerDr. Majkowski
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Steve SpeirsPiotr
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Paul FreemanMonsignor Godlewski
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Michelle DockeryEwa Rozenfeld
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Danny WebbTrojan
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Krzysztof PieczyńskiDr. Janusz Korczak
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Leigh LawsonRabbi Rozenfeld
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Maja OstaszewskaJadwiga
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Danuta StenkaHannah Rozenfeld
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Olga BołądźZofia
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Iddo GoldbergJakub Rozenfeld
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Scott HandyMichal Laski
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