Nina's House
2005Starting 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.
Acted in
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