La llum d'Elna2017
"When there is great suffering, you don't ask questions. You help....."
Film Series
Cinema
Rank
Votes

Director
Sílvia Quer
Screenplay
Ana Sanz Magallón, Montse Ganges
Actors
Noémie Schmidt, Nausicaa Bonnín, Natalia de Molina, Blanca Romero, Nora Navas
Genres
Drama
About the film
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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That grants legendary status. Bravo!
That grants legendary status. Bravo!