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Sarah's Key

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.

2010 |1h 51m |  Drama, War

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Cast

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Kristin Scott Thomas

Julia Jarmond

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Mélusine Mayance

Sarah Starzynski, child

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Niels Arestrup

Jules Dufaure

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Frédéric Pierrot

Bertrand Tezac

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Michel Duchaussoy

Edouard Tezac

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Dominique Frot

Genneviève Dufaure

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Natasha Mashkevich

Rywka Starzynski

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Gisèle Casadesus

Mamé Tezac

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Aidan Quinn

William Rainsferd

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Sarah Ber

Rachel

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Arben Bajraktaraj

Wladyslaw Starzynski

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James Gerard

Mike Bambers

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Joseph Rezwin

Joshua

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Kate Moran

Alexandra

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Alexandre Le Provost

Plainclothes policeman

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Serpentine Teyssier

Mrs Royer

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Simon Eine

Franck Levy

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Julie Fournier

Anna

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Paige Barr

Ornella Harris

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Joanna Merlin

Mrs. Rainsferd

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George Birt

Richard Rainsferd

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Vinciane Millereau

Nathalie Dufaure

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Sylviane Fraval

Colette

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Dan Herzberg

Jacques

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Nancy Tate

Alice

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Frédérick Guillaud

Richard Rainsferd, young

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Charlotte Poutrel

Sarah Starzynski, adult

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Maxim Driesen

Edouard Tezac, child

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Xavier Beja

André Tezac

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Jacqueline Noëlle

Old woman

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Jean-Pierre Hutinet

Village doctor

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Jonathan Kerr

Camp police officer

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Matthias Kress

German officer at farm

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Franck Beckmann

German officer in train

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José Fumanal

Camp gendarme

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Gilles Louzon

Camp gendarme

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Pierre Nahori

Policeman in train

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Yasmine Ghazarian

Camp woman

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Naëva Lissonnet

Little girl in camp

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Céline Caussimon

Nurse Vel d'Hiv

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Claudine Acs

Hysterical woman Vel d'Hiv

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Viktoria Li

Clinical nurse

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Loïc Risser

Male nurse

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Marco Florio

Italian waiter

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Alice St. Clair

Mozart Cafe Waitress

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Stéphanie Gesnel

Young woman at the window

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Gérard Couchet

Old man at the window

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Melinda Wade

Young blonde American woman

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Kiley Liddell

Sarah Starzynski, baby

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Brooke Liddell

Sarah Starzynski, baby

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Sophie Bacry Picciotto

(voice)

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Christian Vurpillot

(voice)

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Ludovic Louis

Trumpet player (uncredited)

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Eric Moreau

Gendarme (uncredited)

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Anoushka Rava

Italian woman (uncredited)

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Jacques Chirac

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

More Details

Status

Released

Language

German, English, French, Italian, Yiddish

Budget

$10,000,000.00

Revenue

$17,511,906.00