Sarah's Key

Uncover the mystery.

Sarah's Key — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 16, 2010
• Runtime
• 111 min
• Genres
• Drama, War
• Director
• Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Sarah's Key — 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