The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Release: 2009-04-19
·Runtime: 96m
·★ 7.3
Drama
War
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Latvia
Poland
Canada
Lithuania
Production Companies
Jeff Most Productions
CBS
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Baltmedia
Most / Rice Productions
Forma Pro Films
Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny
Telekompaniya Klass!
K&K Film Selekt
Lithuanian Film Studio
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Krzysztof Pieczyński
as Dr. Janusz Korczak
Marcia Gay Harden
as Janina Krzyżanowska
Steve Speirs
as Piotr
Danny Webb
as Trojan
Karolina Dryzner
as Crying Mother
Goran Višnjić
as Stefan Zgrzembski
Leigh Lawson
as Rabbi Rozenfeld
Iddo Goldberg
as Jakub Rozenfeld
Scott Handy
as Michal Laski
Anna Paquin
as Irena Sendler
Michelle Dockery
as Ewa Rozenfeld
Danuta Stenka
as Hannah Rozenfeld
Paul Freeman
as Monsignor Godlewski
Nathaniel Parker
as Dr. Majkowski
Olga Bołądź
as Zofia
Maja Ostaszewska
as Jadwiga
Jerzy Nowak
as Old Rabbi
Fiona Glascott
as Maria
Crew
Jerzy Zieliński
Director of Photography
Dominique Lesage
Co-Producer
Jeffrey Grant Rice
Executive Producer
Denise Chamian
Casting
Waldemar Kalinowski
Production Design
Małgorzata Braszka
Costume Design
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Donatas Šimukauskas
Casting
Paweł Grabarczyk
Costume Design