AGNUS DEI

LES INNOCENTES

By Anne FONTAINE

SCREEN DIVISION - as BUYER REP / CONS

Drama - Production 2016

Set in 1946, the story tells of Mathilde, a young doctor, who is asked to come to a convent to assist a dying woman. As it turns out that the patient is a pregnant nun, Mathilde discovers a dark secret of the sisters.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2016
Premieres
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, POLAND
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, POLISH
    • Director(s)
    • Anne FONTAINE
    • Writer(s)
    • Anne FONTAINE, Alice VIAL, Pascal BONITZER, Sabrina B. KARINE
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/1363-E28C-ED6F-F645-794B-Y
    • Producer(s)
    • Nicolas ALTMAYER (MANDARIN CINEMA), Eliza OCZKOWSKA (Aeroplan Film), Klaudia ŚMIEJA (Aeroplan Film)
    • Synopsis
    • Mathilde Beaulieu is a young medical doctor working in 1945 with the French Red Cross on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. One day, while she is working in a hospital in Poland, a nun begs her to follow her back to her convent. Mathilde discovers that several nuns are pregnant. The convent is caught in a tragic double bind: accepting the responsibilities of motherhood or abandoning the children of sin.