Nina's Home ( La maison de Nina )

Nina's Home (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La maison de Nina
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Richard Dembo

Written By:
Richard Dembo

Actors:
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
Claire Bouanich ..... Le petit ange
Arnaud Marciszewer ..... Le petit pruneau
Gaspard Ulliel ..... Izik
David Mambouch ..... Leiser

Synopsis:

Richard Dembo's third directorial effort, La Maison De Nina, concerns a group of Jewish children living in an orphanage in Paris at the end of WWII. Soon there is an influx of children at the orphanage whose parents did not survive the concentration camps. Eventually those newcomers and the orphans who already lived there are feuding over the importance of their Jewish heritage. The children must deal with their grief in a variety of ways including religion, music, and one poor child by deciding to not talk. Dembo, an Oscar winner in 1984, passed away while the film was in post-production.

Many children left without parents for one reason or another - many Jewish - during and immediately after the war found special homes, such as one run by Nina. Here, children of all ages given are security and love to help them get through the most difficult part of their lives, often having to learn of the death of their parents. But life at Nina's is not always tranquil, and the conflicts of the outside world often intrude.

Set in a home run by Nina for displaced or orphaned children between 1944 and 1946, her struggle to survive and support the children, and following their hopes, fears and desires and the readjustment to peacetime at the end of the war, particularly for those who are survivors of work or concentration camps.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 04 December, 2009.

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