
Sarah's Key (2010)
Rating: 7.3/10
Duration: 111 min
Director(s): Gilles Paquet-Brenner,
Description:
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.
Cast
- Aidan Quinn as William Rainsferd
- Michel Duchaussoy as Edouard Tezac
- Niels Arestrup as Jules Dufaure
- Arben Bajraktaraj as Wladyslaw Starzynski
- Frédéric Pierrot as Bertrand Tezac
- Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia Jarmond
- Gisèle Casadesus as Mamé Tezac
- Joseph Rezwin as Joshua
- Mélusine Mayance as Sarah Starzynski, child
- Dominique Frot as Genneviève Dufaure
- Natasha Mashkevich as Rywka Starzynski
- Sarah Ber as Rachel
- James Gerard as Mike Bambers
- Kate Moran as Alexandra
- Paul Mercier as Michel Starzynski