Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
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Agnès Jaoui as Nina
Sarah Adler as Marlène
Katia Lewkowicz as Eva
Arié Elmaleh as Avner
Sébastien Knafo as Arié
Adèle Csech as Sylvie
Jérémy Sitbon as Georges
Vincent Rottiers as Gabriel
Alexis Pivot as Jean
Max Levy as Jules-Marie
Lola Naymark as Rosette
Arnaud Marciszewer as The little prune
Gaspard Ulliel as Izik
David Mambouch as Leiser
Claire Bouanich as The little angel
Arthur Moncla as Moshe
Gabriel Hallali as Hertchel
Meir Bloemhof as Schlome
Jonathan Aleksandrowicz as Aaron
Jérémias Nussbaum as Schmelke
Charles Berling as Maurice Gutman
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus as Jacques Goldstein
Michel Jonasz as The generous donor
Jean-Pierre Becker as Anselme
Bernard Blancan as Emile
André Cavaillé as The photographer
Idit Cebula as Sylvie and Georges' mother
Yann Collette as Colonel de Marcieu
Yann Goven as Bomze
Judith Henry as Jules-Marie's adoptive mother
Allen Hoist as Sandy
Tómas Lemarquis as Gustav
Philippe Morier-Genoud as M. Gélin
Élise Otzenberger as Hélène
Hubert Saint-Macary as The station master
Ken Samuels as Captain O'Leary
Vittoria Scognamiglio as Rosina
Gilles Ségal as Dr. Weill
Veronika Varga as The false mother
Luc Lavandier as
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