Outstandingly directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel), The Innocents is based on a remarkable true story about the crises of faith that emerge when a house of God is ravaged by war. In 1945, a young French doctor treating Second World War survivors in Poland discovers several pregnant Benedictine nuns who have been assaulted by Soviet soldiers. In their fiercely private world, she becomes their only hope. In cinemas from 11 November