2005-10-12
112 mins
The Plot
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. Nina's Home 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.
Cast and Crew
Agnès Jaoui
Nina
Sarah Adler
Marlène
Katia Lewkowicz
Eva
Arié Elmaleh
Avner
Sébastien Knafo
Arié
Adèle Csech
Sylvie
Jérémy Sitbon
Georges
Vincent Rottiers
Gabriel
Alexis Pivot
Jean
Max Levy
Jules-Marie
Lola Naymark
Rosette
Arnaud Marciszewer
The little prune
Gaspard Ulliel
Izik
David Mambouch
Leiser
Claire Bouanich
The little angel
Arthur Moncla
Moshe
Gabriel Hallali
Hertchel
Meir Bloemhof
Schlome
Jonathan Aleksandrowicz
Aaron
Jérémias Nussbaum
Schmelke
Charles Berling
Maurice Gutman
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Jacques Goldstein
Michel Jonasz
The generous donor
Jean-Pierre Becker
Anselme
Bernard Blancan
Emile
André Cavaillé
The photographer
Idit Cebula
Sylvie and Georges' mother
Yann Collette
Colonel de Marcieu
Yann Goven
Bomze
Judith Henry
Jules-Marie's adoptive mother
Allen Hoist
Sandy
Tómas Lemarquis
Gustav
Philippe Morier-Genoud
M. Gélin
Élise Otzenberger
Hélène
Hubert Saint-Macary
The station master
Ken Samuels
Captain O'Leary
Vittoria Scognamiglio
Rosina
Gilles Ségal
Dr. Weill
Veronika Varga
The false mother