Sarah's Key (2010)

Original title

Elle s'appelait Sarah

Directed by

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 721 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist in 2009 uncovers the story of a young Jewish girl who was caught in a mass roundup of families in Paris during World War Two. The film cuts between the girl's desperate escape and the journalist's present-day search for the truth.

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What happens

Sarah's Key (French: Elle s'appelait Sarah) is a 2010 French drama film directed and co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The film is an adaptation of the 2006 novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. The film alternates between a young girl Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) in 1942 and journalist Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas) in 2009 who is researching Sarah's story. It tells the story of Sarah's experiences during and after the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of Jews in German-occupied Paris in 1942 and the participation of bureaucracy in Vichy France and French citizens hiding and protecting Sarah from the French authorities. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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