Sarah's Key
– On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported ..
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 send to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closed just before the police entered their appartment.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.
22 Jul 2011
French, English, Italian, German, Yiddish
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Tatiana De Rosnay (novel), Serge Joncour (screenplay), Gilles Paquet-Brenner (screenplay)
Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Eventually over 8,000 were sent off to German concentration camps. As 10-year old Sarah and her family are being arrested, she hides her younger brother in a closet. After realizing she will not be allowed to go home, Sarah does whatever she can to get back to her brother. In 2009, a journalist named Julia is on assignment to write a story on the deported Jews in 1942. When she moves into her father-in-law's childhood apartment, she realizes it once belonged to the Strazynski family, and their daughter Sarah.
4 wins & 5 nominations.
$7,691,700
The Weinstein Company