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
Cast
Anna Paquin
as Irena Sendler
Goran Višnjić
as Stefan Zgrzembski
Michelle Dockery
as Ewa Rozenfeld
Maja Ostaszewska
as Jadwiga
Krzysztof Pieczyński
as Dr. Janusz Korczak
Jerzy Nowak
as Old Rabbi
Paul Freeman
as Monsignor Godlewski
Leigh Lawson
as Rabbi Rozenfeld
Nathaniel Parker
as Dr. Majkowski
Marcia Gay Harden
as Janina Krzyżanowska
Olga Bołądź
as Zofia
Steve Speirs
as Piotr
Danny Webb
as Trojan
Iddo Goldberg
as Jakub Rozenfeld
Scott Handy
as Michal Laski
Karolina Dryzner
as Crying Mother
Fiona Glascott
as Maria
Crew
Jeffrey Grant Rice
Executive Producer
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
Original Music Composer
Denise Chamian
Casting
Donatas Šimukauskas
Casting
Waldemar Kalinowski
Production Design
Dominique Lesage
Co-Producer
Paweł Grabarczyk
Costume Design
Jerzy Zieliński
Director of Photography
Małgorzata Braszka
Costume Design
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
Orchestrator