19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
04-15-2024
2h 1m
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Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Louise Archambault
Writer:
Dan Gordon
Production:
K&K Film Selekt, Darius Films, Entract Studios, Téléfilm Canada, Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny, TVP, Lubelski Fundusz Filmowy
Key Crew
Best Boy Grip:
Robert Łukowski
Producer:
Tim Ringuette
Stunt Coordinator:
Zbigniew Modej
Producer:
Beata Pisula
Producer:
Jeff Sackman
Locations and Languages
Country:
CA; PL
Filming:
CA; PL
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Sophie Nélisse
Marie-Sophie Nélisse (born March 27, 2000) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her Genie Award–winning performance in Monsieur Lazhar and for her portrayal of Liesel Meminger in the film adaptation of the novel The Book Thief. Nélisse was born in Windsor, Ontario, but moved to Montréal, Québec, with her family when she was four. She is of French Canadian descent. Besides her Genie Award for Monsieur Lazhar, she won a Jutra Award for her performance and a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Leading Young Actress in an International Feature Film. She also had roles in the film Ésimésac and in a Québec sitcom called Les Parent. Her sister is actress Isabelle Nélisse.
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Andrzej Seweryn (born 25 April 1946) is a Polish actor and director. One of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to be hired by the Paris-based Comédie-Française. He is currently serving as director general of the Polski Theatre in Warsaw. Has three children with three different wives: daughter Maria Seweryn (born 1975) with his first wife, Polish actress, Krystyna Janda and two sons Yann-Baptiste and Maximilien.
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She was winner of the best supporting actor award at the 44th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia for the film Corpus Christi.
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Aleksandar Milićević
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Agata Turkot
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Filip Kosior
Filip Kosior was born in 1992 in Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Gorzko, gorzko! (2022), Irena's Vow (2023) and Negatyw (2022).
Elena Leszczynska was born on January 14, 1981 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Mala Moskwa (2008), 80 milionów (2011) and Usta usta (2010).
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Krzysztof Polkowski
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Maciej Glaza
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Nela Maciejewska
Nela graduated from a prestigious Les Ateliers Du Sudden school in Paris. She then went on to gather new knowledge at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles and at the Studio 4. After that she came back to Poland, where she attended the acting school in Olsztyn. She continues to work at the theatre. She speaks fluent French, English, Polish. She also learned Swedish and Italian.
Mateusz Mosiewicz was born on June 27, 1986 in Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland. He is an actor, known for Zakochani po uszy (2019), Pod wiatr (2022) and M jak milosc (2000).
