A nun from a Polish convent requests assistance from a French Red Cross worker who is assisting survivors of the concentration camps (Lou de Laâge). It appears that Russian soldiers had previously committed brutal acts at the convent during their takeover of the region some months before. “The Innocents,” released in 2016, draws inspiration from the experiences of Madeleine Pauliac, a doctor working in Poland, who…

From director Anne Fontaine comes another excellent film centered around women, though it’s partly rooted in a remarkable true story. The extent to which the events portrayed are accurate remains unclear; the filmmakers and writers drew inspiration from the diary of a French doctor who worked for the Red Cross in Poland toward the end of World War II, using those limited details as the foundation for this narrative. …