Sarah's Key

Sarah's Key (2010)

Elle s'appelait Sarah

Uncover the mystery.

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.

Date of release
2010-09-16
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (725)
Runtime
1h 51m
Genres
Drama, War
Director
Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Casting

  • 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
  • Arben Bajraktaraj — Wladyslaw Starzynski
  • James Gerard — Mike Bambers

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