The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)

Directed by

John Kent Harrison

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 124 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, Polish social worker Irena Sendler smuggled around 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. The film shows her courage and the risks she took to save lives.

inspirationalsolemnhistoricalbraveurgentrestrainedsomberquietly heroic

What happens

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, also known as The Warsaw Ghetto on DVD, is a 2009 television film directed by John Kent Harrison. The teleplay by Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola, based on the 2007 biography Die Mutter der Holocaust-Kinder: Irena Sendler und die geretteten Kinder aus dem Warschauer Ghetto, focuses on Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children to safety during World War II. The Hallmark Hall of Fame production was filmed on location in Riga, Latvia. It was broadcast on CBS channels in North America on April 19, 2009, and released to DVD in Hallmark Gold Crown stores in June of that year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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