Agnus Dei (film)
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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 |
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Distributed by | Mars Distribution (France) |
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115 minutes |
Country | France Poland Belgium |
Language | French Polish Russian[1] |
Budget | $6.4 million[2] |
Box office | $5.3 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]
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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.
Cast
- Lou de Laâge as Mathilde Beaulieu
- Agata Buzek as Nun Maria
- Agata Kulesza as Mother Superior
- Vincent Macaigne as Samuel
- Joanna Kulig as Nun Irena
- Katarzyna Dąbrowska as Nun Anna
Reception
Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score from 1 to 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film a 66 based on 5 critics.[8]
References
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External links
- 2016 films
- 2010s drama films
- Drama films based on actual events
- French-language films
- Polish-language films
- Russian-language films
- French drama films
- Polish drama films
- Belgian drama films
- French films
- Polish films
- Belgian films
- Films set in Poland
- Films shot in Poland
- Films set in 1945
- Films directed by Anne Fontaine