Storyline
Poland, winter of 1945. Mathilde Beaulieu (Lou de Lâage) is a young intern working with a branch of the French Red Cross. They are on a mission to find, treat and repatriate French survivors of the German camps. One day, a Polish nun arrives in the hospital. In very poor French, she begs Mathilde to come to her convent. Mathilde life and beliefs change when she discovers the advanced state of pregnancy that affect several of the Sisters of the convent just outside the hospital where she performs.
Writers: Pascal Bonitzer, Pascal Bonitzer, Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig, Eliza Rycembel, Katarzyna Dabrowska, Anna Próchniak, Helena Sujecka, Mira Maluszinska, Dorota Kuduk, Klara Bielawka, Pascal Elso, Thomas Coumans, Leon Latan-Paszek, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Cast: Lou de Laâge -
Mathilde Beaulieu
Agata Buzek -
Maria
Agata Kulesza -
Mère Abesse
Vincent Macaigne -
Samuel
Joanna Kulig -
Irena
Eliza Rycembel -
Teresa
Katarzyna Dabrowska -
Anna
Anna Próchniak -
Zofia
Helena Sujecka -
Ludwika
Mira Maluszinska -
Bibiana
Dorota Kuduk -
Wanda
Klara Bielawka -
Joanna
Pascal Elso -
Le colonel
Thomas Coumans -
Gaspard
Leon Latan-Paszek -
Wladek
Trivia: Adèle Haenel was originally attached to play Mathilde. See more »
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Based on true events that occurred in Poland during post WW2 period,
the tale of Sisters, nuns in a convent, where some of them were raped
by Soviet soldiers and found themselves pregnant. So, a young French
war nurse is called for help, to pull the confinements. You have here
an outstanding and poignant story held by powerful performances. I
sometimes thought of John Ford's SEVEN WOMEN, another pure female
movie, a women's atmosphere where the bunch has to fight against the
out world. I will insist on the Mother Superior character whose
performance reminds me the Paul Scofield's one, in John Frankenheimer's
THE TRAIN, where he was a cold iced, ruthless German officer, so deeply
dedicated, at the extreme, to what he truly believed in. This female
character here, as the convent directress, is the same kind of
character. Terrific.
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