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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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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20247/10
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 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 herself immersed in a poignant story of a family who made some fairly horrific sacrifices so that at least one of them could survive the atrocities to come. It was the young sister "Sarah" (Mélusine Mayance) who came up with the idea of hiding her brother "Michel" (Paul Mercier) in a cupboard. Once interred, though, she was terrified that he could be left alone, or found, or worse - so with the help of a sympathetic French guard manages to make her way, with a friend, to the farm of "Jules" (Niels Arsetrup) where he and his wife offer her protection from her persecutors and essentially treat
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Cast
- Kristin Scott ThomasJulia Jarmond
- Mélusine MayanceSarah Starzynski, child
- Niels ArestrupJules Dufaure
- Frédéric PierrotBertrand Tezac
- Michel DuchaussoyEdouard Tezac
- Dominique FrotGenneviève Dufaure
- Natasha MashkevichRywka Starzynski
- Gisèle CasadesusMamé Tezac
- Aidan QuinnWilliam Rainsferd
- Sarah BerRachel
Crew
- Gilles Paquet-BrennerDirector
- Serge JoncourScreenplay
- Gilles Paquet-BrennerScreenplay
- Tatiana De RosnayNovel
- Pascal RidaoDirector of Photography
- Max RichterOriginal Music Composer
- Hervé SchneidEditor
- Frédérique Dumas-ZajdelaProducer
- Stéphane MarsilProducer
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