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Sarah's Key

Sarah's Key

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 16, 2010

Runtime

1h 51m

Genres

Drama, War

User Score

73%

Original Title

Elle s'appelait Sarah

Production Companies

A Plus Image, Hugo Productions, Studio 37, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, France 2 Cinéma, TPS Star, La Région Île-de-France, Canal+, France Télévisions

Director

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$17,511,906

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.