Nina's House
La maison de Nina
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
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Cast
Michel Jonasz
as The generous donor
Yann Collette
as Colonel de Marcieu
Tómas Lemarquis
as Gustav
Adèle Csech
as Sylvie
Vincent Rottiers
as Gabriel
Gaspard Ulliel
as Izik
Claire Bouanich
as The little angel
Lola Naymark
as Rosette
Arthur Moncla
as Moshe
Philippe Morier-Genoud
as M. Gélin
Élise Otzenberger
as Hélène
Ken Samuels
as Captain O'Leary
Arié Elmaleh
as Avner
Sébastien Knafo
as Arié
Bernard Blancan
as Emile
Idit Cebula
as Sylvie and Georges' mother
Hubert Saint-Macary
as The station master
Gilles Ségal
as Dr. Weill
Veronika Varga
as The false mother
Alexis Pivot
as Jean
Arnaud Marciszewer
as The little prune
Gabriel Hallali
as Hertchel
Vittoria Scognamiglio
as Rosina
Sarah Adler
as Marlène
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
as Jacques Goldstein
Yann Goven
as Bomze
Agnès Jaoui
as Nina
Jean-Pierre Becker
as Anselme
Judith Henry
as Jules-Marie's adoptive mother
Katia Lewkowicz
as Eva
Charles Berling
as Maurice Gutman
