The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
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Written by	John Kent Harrison Lawrence John Spagnola
Directed by	John Kent Harrison
Starring	Anna Paquin Goran Visnjic Marcia Gay Harden
Theme music composer	Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Country of origin	United States Canada Poland
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Cameron Johann
Running time	95 minutes
Production companies	CBS Lithuanian Film Studio Hallmark Hall of Fame BaltMedia Jeff Most Productions K&K Selekt Telekompānija Forma Pro
Original release
Network	Hallmark Hall of Fame
Release	April 19, 2009 (2009-04-19)
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler is a 2009 television film directed by John Kent Harrison. The teleplay by Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola, based on the 2007 biography Die Mutter der Holocaust-Kinder: Irena Sendler und die geretteten Kinder aus dem Warschauer Ghetto,^[1] focuses on Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children to safety during World War II.

The Hallmark Hall of Fame production was filmed on location in Riga, Latvia. It was broadcast on CBS channels in North America on April 19, 2009, and released to DVD in Hallmark Gold Crown stores in June of that year.