The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

April. 19,2009      
Rating:
7.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Anna Paquin as  Irena Sendler
Marcia Gay Harden as  Janina Krzyżanowska
Goran Visnjic as  Stefan
Nathaniel Parker as  Dr. Majkowski
Steve Speirs as  Piotr
Paul Freeman as  Monsignor Godlewski
Michelle Dockery as  Ewa Rozenfeld
Danny Webb as  Trojan
Krzysztof Pieczyński as  Dr. Janusz Korczak
Leigh Lawson as  Rabbi Rozenfeld

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