Sarah's Key

Sarah's Key

111 mins | Drama, War | Sept. 16, 2010

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.

Sarah's Key

111 mins | Drama, War | Sept. 16, 2010

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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers France 2 Cinéma, Canal+, Studio 37, TPS Star, France Télévisions, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, Région Ile-de-France, Hugo Productions, A Plus Image
Original title Elle s'appelait Sarah
Directors Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Writers Serge Joncour, Tatiana De Rosnay, Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Cast

Kristin Scott Thomas

as Julia Jarmond

Mélusine Mayance

as Sarah Starzynski, child

Niels Arestrup

as Jules Dufaure

Frédéric Pierrot

as Bertrand Tezac

Michel Duchaussoy

as Edouard Tezac

Dominique Frot

as Genneviève Dufaure

Natasha Mashkevich

as Rywka Starzynski

Gisèle Casadesus

as Mamé Tezac

Aidan Quinn

as William Rainsferd

Sarah Ber

as Rachel

Arben Bajraktaraj

as Wladyslaw Starzynski

James Gerard

as Mike Bambers

Joseph Rezwin

as Joshua

Kate Moran

as Alexandra

Paul Mercier

as Michel Starzynski

Alexandre Le Provost

as Plainclothes policeman

Serpentine Teyssier

as Mrs Royer

Simon Eine

as Franck Levy

Julie Fournier

as Anna

Paige Barr

as Ornella Harris

Joanna Merlin

as Mrs. Rainsferd

George Birt

as Richard Rainsferd

Vinciane Millereau

as Nathalie Dufaure

Sylviane Fraval

as Colette

Dan Herzberg

as Jacques

Nancy Tate

as Alice

Frédérick Guillaud

as Richard Rainsferd, young

Maurice Lustyk

as Man with violin

Charlotte Poutrel

as Sarah Starzynski, adult

Maxim Driesen

as Edouard Tezac, child

Xavier Beja

as André Tezac

Jacqueline Noëlle

as Old woman

Jean-Pierre Hutinet

as Village doctor

Jonathan Kerr

as Camp police officer

Matthias Kress

as German officer at farm

Franck Beckmann

as German officer in train

Nicolas Seconda

as Gendarme Vel d'Hiv

François d'Aubigny

as Gendarme Vel d'Hiv

Stéphane Charond

as Camp gendarme

José Fumanal

as Camp gendarme

Gilles Louzon

as Camp gendarme

Pierre Nahori

as Policeman in train

Yasmine Ghazarian

as Camp woman

Naëva Lissonnet

as Little girl in camp

Céline Caussimon

as Nurse Vel d'Hiv

Claudine Acs

as Hysterical woman Vel d'Hiv

Viktoria Li

as Clinical nurse

Loïc Risser

as Male nurse

Franck Chilly

as Stretcher-bearer

Marco Florio

as Italian waiter

Alice St. Clair

as Mozart Cafe Waitress

Stéphanie Gesnel

as Young woman at the window

Gérard Couchet

as Old man at the window

Mark Fairchild

as Bob Rainsferd

Melinda Wade

as Young blonde American woman

Kiley Liddell

as Sarah Starzynski, baby

Brooke Liddell

as Sarah Starzynski, baby

Christian Vurpillot

as (voice)

Robert Rotsztein

as (voice)

Tatiana De Rosnay

as Client in restaurant (uncredited)

Ludovic Louis

as Trumpet player (uncredited)

Eric Moreau

as Gendarme (uncredited)

Anoushka Rava

as Italian woman (uncredited)

Jacques Chirac

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)