The Round Up (2010)

Original title

La Rafle

Directed by

Roselyne Bosch

Genre

drama film, war film, historical film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

16

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 1,041 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Jewish boy in Paris experiences the mass arrest of Jews by French police in 1942. The film follows his family and others as they are rounded up and held in terrible conditions.

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What happens

The Round Up (French: La Rafle) is a 2010 French historical war drama film written and directed by Roselyne Bosch and produced by Alain Goldman. The film stars Mélanie Laurent, Jean Reno, Sylvie Testud and Gad Elmaleh. Based on the true story of a young Jewish boy, the film depicts the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv), the mass arrest of Jews by French police who were accomplices of Nazi Germans in Paris in July 1942. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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