Elle s'appelait Sarah

"Uncover the mystery."

Jul 22 2011 PG-13 1h 51m
Drama, War

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.

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Plot

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 (Mélusine Mayance) 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 Jarmond (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) 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.

Written by

Tatiana De Rosnay, Serge Joncour, Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Directed by

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Cast

Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup

Crew

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Production Countries

France

Production Companies

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

Languages

, English, Français, Italiano, Deutsch

Awards

5 wins & 5 nominations

Trailers
Sarah's Key - The Official Trailer HD
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18,190
Average Rating
7.5 out of 10
Metascore
59
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