| The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler | |
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 Promotional poster | |
| Written by | John Kent Harrison Lawrence John Spagnola |
| Directed by | John Kent Harrison |
| Starring | Anna Paquin Goran Visnjic Marcia Gay Harden |
| Theme music composer | Jan A.P. Kaczmarek |
| Country of origin | United States Canada Poland |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producer | Cameron Johann |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Production companies | CBS Lithuanian Film Studio Hallmark Hall of Fame BaltMedia Jeff Most Productions K&K Selekt Telekompānija Forma Pro |
| Original release | |
| Network | Hallmark Hall of Fame |
| Release | April 19, 2009 |
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler is a 2009 television film directed by John Kent Harrison. The teleplay by Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola, based on the 2007 biography Die Mutter der Holocaust-Kinder: Irena Sendler und die geretteten Kinder aus dem Warschauer Ghetto,[1] focuses on Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children to safety during World War II.
The Hallmark Hall of Fame production was filmed on location in Riga, Latvia. It was broadcast on CBS channels in North America on April 19, 2009, and released to DVD in Hallmark Gold Crown stores in June of that year.
- ^ DVA Dt.Verlags-Anstalt, ISBN 978-3421059123 / English translation 2010: The Mother of the Holocaust Children by Anna Mieszkowska