Greetings to all 🤗 today I share with you a French historical drama film based on a real event, its name is Les Innocentes and as you may have noticed it is a French film, this was released in 2016 and was directed by Anne Fontaine whom I only knew from the film dedicated to Coco Channel, but I really liked this film so I'll be attentive to see other works by this experienced director.
Les Innocentes is about a young French doctor who in 1945 is in Poland serving for the red cross of her country, her mission is to cure the French soldiers who are still there to make them return to their homeland, however one day she is surprised by a nun who asks her for help, she tells her that since the nun is Polish she should go to the Polish Red Cross, but the nun insists that she does not want to go to any Polish or Russian doctor.
The doctor finally agrees to help the nun who takes her to the convent in a furtive way, when she arrives there she finds that a woman is giving birth, when she wants to attend to her she is very elusive to the doctor touching her, she realizes that the The woman is a nun and therefore seeing her in labor is somewhat confusing for the doctor.
After attending to the situation, the abbess explains to the doctor that when the Russian army troops arrived in Poland they violated the convent and the nuns were raped, the nuns keep the secret because if the situation is revealed the convent would cease to exist and the nuns they would be repudiated, the worst part of the situation is that there are 7 nuns who became pregnant as a result of these violations.
The doctor is in a difficult situation, on the one hand her duty as a doctor is to save lives and on the other hand she would be doing something out of the law by helping the nuns while she is in Polish territory, however here the film shows how this woman Despite not being Catholic and coming from a working-class family with communist ideals, she feels with her heart attached to these women who are going through such a difficult and tragic situation, in addition to the fact that the babies are not to blame for anything but the women had simply consecrated their body and soul to their belief in god and had taken a vow of chastity, so having a baby was unthinkable.
As in any war it is the innocent who bear all the damage, so this situation exceeds even the ideals of the doctor as well as the faith of the nuns, also the political landscape of Poland at that time does not support the convents, for what if the situation became known possibly the same army would be in charge of erasing the evidence.
For me it is a good film that does not fall into the morbidity of explicit violence or excessive drama, it certainly has its moments of tension but there are not that many, the character with the greatest emotional charge is that of the abbess of the convent who must take Important decisions that will bring his faith and his sense of duty into an internal fight with tragic consequences.
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