Sarah's Key

2010 111 min ★ 7.3 Drama, War

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.

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Cast

Kristin Scott Thomas

Julia Jarmond

Mélusine Mayance

Sarah Starzynski, child

Niels Arestrup

Jules Dufaure

Frédéric Pierrot

Bertrand Tezac

Michel Duchaussoy

Edouard Tezac

Dominique Frot

Genneviève Dufaure

Natasha Mashkevich

Rywka Starzynski

Gisèle Casadesus

Mamé Tezac

Aidan Quinn

William Rainsferd

Sarah Ber

Rachel

Details

Director

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Screenplay

Serge Joncour

Tagline

"Uncover the mystery."

Status

Released

Original Language

FR

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$17,511,906

Production

A Plus Image, Hugo Productions, Studio 37, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, France 2 Cinéma, TPS Star, La Région Île-de-France, Canal+, France Télévisions

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

April 13, 2024

★ 7/10

Gilles Paquet-Brenner has put together quite an engaging cast to tell this story of a woman with an hitherto unknown family history. "Julia" (Dame Kristen Scott Thomas) is a journalist with a French magazine who is assigned to write a story of the infamous rounding-up and deportation of the Jewish population of Paris in 1942. By chance, she and her husband are looking to move into his father's spa...