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The Innocents

Deeply moving and emotionally layered.

7.1(436)20161h 55m3

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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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$1.1M
Language
French
  • rape
  • nazi
  • nun
  • concentration camp
  • based on true story
  • religion
  • doctor
  • monastery
  • red cross
  • woman director
  • complex relationship
  • pregnant nun

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Produced in

Belgium, France, Poland

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival26 Jan 2016
    • Theatrical (limited)1 Jul 2016
    • Digital / OTTPG-13Prime Video27 Jul 2016
    • PhysicalPG-13DVD & Blu-ray27 Sept 2016
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival14 Oct 2016
    • Theatrical1511 Nov 2016
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical27 Apr 2017
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical15 Jul 2016
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical13 Oct 2016
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical16 Jun 2017
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical9 Mar 2016
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical1414 Jul 2016
  • ChileCL

    • Theatrical15 Jun 2017
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical5 Mar 2017
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical155 Jan 2017
  • EstoniaEE

    • Theatrical21 Mar 2017

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The Innocents was released on 10 February 2016.

Audience reviews

2
  • R

    Reno

    7/30/2017

    8/10

    **When the house of peace was disturbed!** From the director Anne Fontaine. Like any of her works, this is another top class women oriented film. But it was partially based on the incredible true story. Partial means, no one knows what was the actual event. The director and her writers inspired by the diary the French doctor who worked for Red Cross in Poland at the end of the World War II, who wrote down her expe…

  • W

    Wuchak

    9/12/2024

    7/10

    **_When the soldiers of the Red Army are just as bad as the German occupiers_** Seven months after the end of the European theater of WW2, a nun from a convent in Poland seeks the aid of a French Red Cross worker, who’s helping French survivors of the concentration camps (Lou de Laâge). It turns out that some Russian soldiers paid a barbaric visit to the convent when they were taking over the territory months earl…

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