Release Date
July 1, 2016 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
September 27, 2016 (Buy on Amazon)
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Running Time
115 minutes
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for disturbing thematic material including sexual assault, and for some bloody images and brief suggestive content
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... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Haunting and powerful, The Innocents is an absorbing drama about the consequences of war and the dangers of pride. Focused on a convent of nuns who were raped and impregnated as forces retreated in the wake of World War II, the French-Polish film ranks among the year’s better films.
Lou de Laâge stars as Mathilde, a French doctor in Poland who promises to keep the pregnancies a secret at the request of the convent’s Mother Superior, out of fear of dishonoring the nuns and shaming the convent. Full movie review »
Lou de Laâge stars as Mathilde, a French doctor in Poland who promises to keep the pregnancies a secret at the request of the convent’s Mother Superior, out of fear of dishonoring the nuns and shaming the convent. Full movie review »
