Agnus Dei (film)

Agnus Dei

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Anne Fontaine
Produced by Éric Altmayer
Nicolas Altmayer
Philippe Carcassonne
Written by Sabrina B. Karine
Pascal Bonitzer
Anne Fontaine
Alice Vial
Based on an original concept 
by Philippe Maynial
Starring Lou de Laâge
Agata Kulesza
Agata Buzek
Vincent Macaigne
Music by Grégoire Hetzel
Cinematography Caroline Champetier
Edited by Annette Dutertre
Production
company
Aeroplan Film
France 2 Cinéma
Mandarin Cinéma
Mars Films
Scope Pictures
Distributed by Mars Distribution (France)
Release dates
  • 26 January 2016 (2016-01-26) (Sundance)[1]
  • 10 February 2016 (2016-02-10) (France)
Running time
115 minutes
Country France
Poland
Belgium
Language French
Polish
Russian[1]
Budget $6.4 million[2]
Box office $4.8 million[3]

Agnus Dei (French title: Les Innocentes; lit.The Innocents) is a 2016 drama film directed by Anne Fontaine, starring Lou de Laâge, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek and Vincent Macaigne. The script by Sabrina B. Karine, Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine and Alice Vial is based on a true story.[4]

The film is a French-Polish-Belgian co-production that was supported by the Polish Film Institute and the Film Commission Poland.[5] Principal photography began on 13 January 2015 in the Warmia region in Poland, and lasted for seven weeks.[4][6] The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016.[7]

Plot

1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancies during a visit to a nearby convent. The nuns have been raped by Soviet soldiers.

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