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.
as Nina
as Marlène
as Eva
as Avner
as Arié
as Sylvie
as Georges
as Gabriel
as Jean
as Jules-Marie
as Rosette
as The little prune
as Izik
as Leiser
as The little angel
as Moshe
as Hertchel
as Schlome
as Aaron
as Schmelke
as Maurice Gutman
as Jacques Goldstein
as The generous donor
as Anselme
as Emile
as The photographer
as Sylvie and Georges' mother
as Colonel de Marcieu
as Bomze
as Jules-Marie's adoptive mother
as Sandy
as Gustav
as M. Gélin
as Hélène
as The station master
as Captain O'Leary
as Rosina
as Dr. Weill
as The false mother
