The Light of Hope (2017)

  • APTA
  • 03/27/2017 (ES)
  • Drama
  • 1h 36m

"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.

Sílvia Quer

Director

Ana Sanz Magallón

Screenplay

Montse Ganges

Screenplay

Cast

Noémie Schmidt's headshot

Noémie Schmidt

Nausicaa Bonnín's headshot

Nausicaa Bonnín

Natalia de Molina's headshot

Natalia de Molina

Blanca Romero's headshot

Blanca Romero

Nora Navas's headshot

Nora Navas

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