Les Innocentes/ Agnus Day / The Innocents
Storyline
Mathilde Beaulieu is a young medical doctor working in 1945 with the French Red Cross on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. One day, while she is working in a hospital in Poland, a nun begs her to follow her back to her convent. Mathilde discovers that several nuns are pregnant. The convent is caught in a tragic double bind: accepting the responsibilities of motherhood or abandoning the children of sin.
Director: Anne Fontaine
Country: France, Poland, Belgium
Year: 2016
Genre: Fiction
Scriptwriters: Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer, Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial
Cast: Lou de Laâge, Vincent Macaigne, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Joanna Kulig, Pascal Elso, Anna – Próchniak
Production: France 2 Cinéma, Scope Pictures, Mandarin Production (ex Mandarin Cinéma), Mars Films, Aeroplan Film
Country: France, Poland, Belgium
Year: 2016
Genre: Fiction
Scriptwriters: Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer, Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial
Cast: Lou de Laâge, Vincent Macaigne, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Joanna Kulig, Pascal Elso, Anna – Próchniak
Production: France 2 Cinéma, Scope Pictures, Mandarin Production (ex Mandarin Cinéma), Mars Films, Aeroplan Film