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The Innocents

Name: The Innocents
Director: Anne Fontaine
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2016-02-10
Cast: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig

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Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.

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Lou de LaâgeAgata BuzekAgata KuleszaVincent MacaigneJoanna KuligEliza RycembelKatarzyna DąbrowskaAnna PróchniakHelena SujeckaMira MaludzińskaDorota KudukKlara Bielawka

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Anne Fontaine

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