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Sarah's Key is a french film of genre Drama directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner released in USA on 22 july 2011 with Kristin Scott Thomas
Sarah's Key (2010)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 22 july 2011
Length 1h51
Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
OriginFrance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Rating74%
Sarah's Key (French: Elle s'appelait Sarah) is a 2010 French drama directed and co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and an adaptation of the novel with the same title by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Sarah's Key follows a journalist's present-day investigation into the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of Jews in German-occupied Paris in 1942. It tells the story of a young girl's experiences during and after these events, illustrating the participation of the French bureaucracy as well as French citizens hiding and protecting Sarah from the French authorities.
The film alternates between Sarah's life in 1942 and the journalist researching the story in 2009.
Synopsis
In 1942, 10-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance) hides her younger brother from French police by locking him in a secret closet and telling him to stay there until she returns. She takes the key with her when she and her parents are transported to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where they are held in inhuman conditions by the Paris Police and French Secret Service.Actors
Kristin Scott Thomas
(Julia Jarmond)
Niels Arestrup
(Jules Dufaure)
Arben Bajraktaraj
(Wladyslaw Starzynski)
Mélusine Mayance
(Sarah Starzynski, child)
Frédéric Pierrot
(Bertrand Tezac)
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