Veteran French director Anne Fontaine approaches a spiritually and emotionally complex real-life slice of history with deftness and understated drama in "The Innocents." "The Innocents" begins at the end of World War II in Poland, December 1945. Serene, austere Benedictine nuns sing sweetly.. Warsaw, December 1945: a young French Red Cross doctor is summoned to a local convent where she discovers several nuns in various states of pregnancy, facing an unprecedented crisis of faith as their fiercely private world clashes with harsh realities. Includes English subtitles-user may need to turn subtitles on.
THE INNOCENTS | 2016 - 110′ - Drama, History. Written by: Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial, Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine. Directed by: Anne Fontaine. Starring: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig. Official Selection Sundance International Film Festival 2016. Official Competition COLCOA 2016 (winner Audience Award). In French with English subtitles. A.. The Innocents (French: Les Innocentes), also known as Agnus Dei, is a 2016 drama film directed by Anne Fontaine that features Lou de Laâge, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek and Vincent Macaigne. [2][3] The script is by Sabrina B. Karine, Pascal Bonitzer, Fontaine and Alice Vial, after an original idea by Philippe Maynial. [4] Maynial took inspiration from the experiences of his aunt, Madeleine.