Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
"Deeply moving and emotionally layered."
Top Billed Cast
Lou de Laâge
Mathilde Beaulieu
Agata Buzek
Nun Maria
Agata Kulesza
Mother Superior
Vincent Macaigne
Samuel
Joanna Kulig
Nun Irena
Eliza Rycembel
Teresa
Katarzyna Dąbrowska
Nun Anna
Anna Próchniak
Zofia
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
R RenoVerified TMDB Critic
2017-07-30
**When the house of peace was disturbed!**
From the director Anne Fontaine. Like any of her works, this is another top class women oriented film. But it was partially based on the incredible true story. Partial means, no one knows what was the actual event. The director and her writers inspired by the diary the French doctor who worked for Red Cross in Poland at the end of the World War II, who wrote down her experience on it. So, with the small-small facts the story was built on for the film. Well done job by the cast and crew.
Whenever you hear the word/abbreviation 'WWII', it always b...
W WuchakVerified TMDB Critic
2024-09-12
**_When the soldiers of the Red Army are just as bad as the German occupiers_**
Seven months after the end of the European theater of WW2, a nun from a convent in Poland seeks the aid of a French Red Cross worker, who’s helping French survivors of the concentration camps (Lou de Laâge). It turns out that some Russian soldiers paid a barbaric visit to the convent when they were taking over the territory months earlier.
“The Innocents” (2016) is based on the true story of Madeleine Pauliac when she was working as a doctor in Poland, renamed Mathilde Beaulieu for the movie (Lou). It...
