The Innocents

The Innocents

Deeply moving and emotionally layered.

2016115 min7.1 / 10

A grave, intimate portrait of trauma and faith in post-war Poland, where a doctor confronts the moral and spiritual crisis of pregnant nuns hidden in a monastery.

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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