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LA MAISON DE NINA
Rated: PG (Holocaust Themes, Mild Violence, Mild Coarse Language)
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 112 minutes
Tag Line: A powerful hymn to life
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war.
La Maison de Nina takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by NIna who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps.
The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue.
Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
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Richard Dembo |
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Richard Dembo |
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Agnes Jaoui |
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Gspard Ulliel |
Dembo, born in 1948, went to summer camp in one of the children's homes, where he observed the people who lived there since the war and the real-life Nina who inspired the script.
Richard Dembo's first feature was the chess drama 'Dangerous Moves'. It won the 1985 Academy Award for Best Foreign Languague Film, Cesar for Best First Feature and Golden globe Nominee for Best Foreign Film.
He died in November 2004 when the film was only partially edited.
Variety
A quietly magnificent...tale' (Read Now)
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