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Sarah's Key
“Uncover the mystery.”
20107.31h 51m
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.
Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Written by Tatiana De Rosnay, Serge Joncour, Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Produced by Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela, Stéphane Marsil
Box OfficeBudget: $10.0MRevenue: $17.5M
Top 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
Themes & Keywords
survivor's guiltgood people
About Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key is a drama, war film released in 2010 exploring themes of survivor's guilt, good people. Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, it stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup. 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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