Top Cast
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Maia Morgenstern
Edith Stein
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Adriana Asti
Augusta
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Jan Nowicki
Franz Heller
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Elide Melli
Rosa
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Giovanni Capalbo
Paul
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Czinkóczi Zsuzsa
Dora
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Anna Polony
Sister Giuseppa
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Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Hans
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An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.
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