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A Secret

A Secret

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 3, 2007

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

Un secret

Production Companies

La Région Île-de-France, France 3 Cinéma, Canal+

Director

Claude Miller

Description

In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.