The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler poster
Director John Kent Harrison
Writer John Kent Harrison, Larry Spagnola

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

Tagline: How did one woman save 2500 children?

Release Date: 2009-04-19

Duration: 95 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Michelle Dockery
    Ewa Rozenfeld
  • Anna Paquin
    Irena Sendler
  • Marcia Gay Harden
    Janina Krzyżanowska
  • Goran Visnjic
    Stefan
  • Paul Freeman
    Monsignor Godlewski
  • Danny Webb
    Trojan
  • Iddo Goldberg
    Jakub Rozenfeld
  • Scott Handy
    Michal Laski
  • Nathaniel Parker
    Dr. Majkowski
  • Leigh Lawson
    Rabbi Rozenfeld