Nina's House

Nina's House

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.

Cast for Nina's House...

Sarah Adler
Marlène
Max Levy
Jules-Marie
Arnaud Marciszewer
The little prune  
Claire Bouanich
The little angel
Charles Berling
Maurice Gutman
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Jacques Goldstein
Michel Jonasz
The generous donor
André Cavaillé
The photographer
Idit Cebula
Sylvie and Georges' mother
Yann Collette
Colonel de Marcieu
Judith Henry
Jules-Marie's adoptive mother
Hubert Saint-Macary
The station master
Ken Samuels
Captain O'Leary
Gilles Ségal
Dr. Weill
Veronika Varga
The false mother