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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Ken Samuels
as Captain O'Leary
Vittoria Scognamiglio
as Rosina
Sarah Adler
as Marlène
Gaspard Ulliel
as Izik
Agnès Jaoui
as Nina
Alexis Pivot
as Jean
Idit Cebula
as Sylvie and Georges' mother
Yann Collette
as Colonel de Marcieu
Hubert Saint-Macary
as The station master
Charles Berling
as Maurice Gutman
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
as Jacques Goldstein
Jean-Pierre Becker
as Anselme
Tómas Lemarquis
as Gustav
Arié Elmaleh
as Avner
Arthur Moncla
as Moshe
Gabriel Hallali
as Hertchel
Bernard Blancan
as Emile
Adèle Csech
as Sylvie
Katia Lewkowicz
as Eva
Arnaud Marciszewer
as The little prune
Philippe Morier-Genoud
as M. Gélin
Lola Naymark
as Rosette
Claire Bouanich
as The little angel
Michel Jonasz
as The generous donor
Judith Henry
as Jules-Marie's adoptive mother
Élise Otzenberger
as Hélène
Gilles Ségal
as Dr. Weill
Veronika Varga
as The false mother
Sébastien Knafo
as Arié
Vincent Rottiers
as Gabriel
Yann Goven
as Bomze
