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16/09/2010 Drama, War 1h 51m
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Uncover the mystery.

Overview

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.

  1. Gilles Paquet-Brenner

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Kristin Scott Thomas

    Julia Jarmond

  2. Mélusine Mayance

    Sarah Starzynski, child

  3. Niels Arestrup

    Jules Dufaure

  4. Frédéric Pierrot

    Bertrand Tezac

  5. Michel Duchaussoy

    Edouard Tezac

  6. Dominique Frot

    Genneviève Dufaure

  7. Natasha Mashkevich

    Rywka Starzynski

  8. Gisèle Casadesus

    Mamé Tezac

  9. Aidan Quinn

    William Rainsferd

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-04-13
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 spacious apartment and she discovers something of it's history. It was rented, once, to the "Strazynski" family who were victims of that heinous event. As "Julia" begins to investigate further, she finds...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$10,000,000.00

Revenue
$17,511,906.00

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