The Innocents

The Innocents

2016 · 115 min · FR · PG-13 · 7.1 (356 votes)
Dir. Anne Fontaine · Starring Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig, Eliza Rycembel · Music Grégoire Hetzel

Deeply moving and emotionally layered.

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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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A deeply affecting, somber drama set against the stark backdrop of post-war Poland. It's a quiet, intense exploration of faith tested by unimaginable trauma, unfolding with a palpable sense of dread and quiet desperation.

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