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The Light of Hope (2017)

ALL 03/27/2017 (ca) Drama 96 Min
  • Release
    03/27/2017
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    80%
  • Original title
    La llum d'Elna
  • Original language
    ca
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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"When there is great suffering, you don't ask questions. You help....."

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.

  1. Sílvia Quer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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The Light of Hope (2017) 96 Min

ALL 03/27/2017 (ca)
Drama
  • Release 03/27/2017
  • Production
  • Original title La llum d'Elna
  • ca
  • Revenue0.00

"When there is great suffering, you don't ask questions. You help....."

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.

  1. Sílvia Quer

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. André Martin, José Flores

    Producer



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