The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
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Written byJohn Kent Harrison
Lawrence John Spagnola
Directed byJohn Kent Harrison
StarringAnna Paquin
Goran Visnjic
Marcia Gay Harden
Theme music composerJan A.P. Kaczmarek
Country of originUnited States
Canada
Poland
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerCameron Johann
Running time95 minutes
Production companiesCBS
Lithuanian Film Studio
Hallmark Hall of Fame
BaltMedia
Jeff Most Productions
K&K Selekt
Telekompānija Forma Pro
Original release
NetworkHallmark Hall of Fame
ReleaseApril 19, 2009 (2009-04-19)
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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.

  1. ^ DVA Dt.Verlags-Anstalt, ISBN 978-3421059123 / English translation 2010: The Mother of the Holocaust Children by Anna Mieszkowska