

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.
Acting
Anna Paquin's trembling restraint says everything screaming wouldn't.
Direction
Harrison lets horror live in doorways and paperwork.
Director
John Kent Harrison
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Irena Sendler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 but lost to Al Gore. She died the next year at 98.
Poland's communist government suppressed Sendler's story for decades because she worked with the Polish Underground — not the communist resistance.
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