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The Round Up (2010)

The Round Up poster
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
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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)

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