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The Light of Hope (2017)

Overview

When the Vichy authorities close the Elna Maternity Hospital, which welcomes pregnant women from the concentration camps, its director, Elisabeth, and Victoria, will sacrifice themselves to save it. Television film written by Margarita Melgar and directed by Sílvia Quer (' 'Velvet' ', (' 'Gran Hotel' '), set in northern Catalonia during the summer of 1942. The film is based on real events and narrates the prowess of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, founder of Elna's Maternity, which along with her collaborators restored dignity to pregnant women in the Argelers and Ribesaltes internment camps in Vichy France Motherhood welcomed hundreds of women and saved 597 babies from certain death.
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Sílvia Quer profile
Sílvia Quer

Director

Ana Sanz Magallón profile
Ana Sanz Magallón

Screenplay

Cast

Noémie Schmidt profile
Noémie Schmidt

Nausicaa Bonnín profile
Nausicaa Bonnín

Natalia de Molina profile
Natalia de Molina

Blanca Romero profile
Blanca Romero

Nora Navas profile
Nora Navas

Noémie Schmidt profile
Noémie Schmidt

Nausicaa Bonnín profile
Nausicaa Bonnín

Natalia de Molina profile
Natalia de Molina

Blanca Romero profile
Blanca Romero

Nora Navas profile
Nora Navas

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Release Date

March 27, 2017

Original Language

Spanish, Catalan, German, French

Budget

$0.00

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