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Nina's House (2005)

Nina's House (2005)

Drama History War
Release Date: 2005, October 12
Directors: Richard Dembo
Countries: France
Production: ADR Productions, TF1 Films Production, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Canal+, CNC, TPS Star, Metaboles et Compagnie, La Région Île-de-France
Cast: Tómas Lemarquis, Hubert Saint-Macary, Bernard Blancan, Jean-Pierre Becker, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Charles Berling, Gaspard Ulliel, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Arié Elmaleh, Sarah Adler, Gilles Ségal, Arnaud Marciszewer

Overview:

Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.

Keywords:

1940s orphanage