Sarah's Key
2010On 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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Kristin Scott Thomas
as Julia Jarmond
Mélusine Mayance
as Sarah Starzynski, child
Niels Arestrup
as Jules Dufaure
Frédéric Pierrot
as Bertrand Tezac
Michel Duchaussoy
as Edouard Tezac
Dominique Frot
as Genneviève Dufaure
Natasha Mashkevich
as Rywka Starzynski
Gisèle Casadesus
as Mamé Tezac
Aidan Quinn
as William Rainsferd
Sarah Ber
as Rachel
Arben Bajraktaraj
as Wladyslaw Starzynski
James Gerard
as Mike Bambers
Joseph Rezwin
as Joshua
Kate Moran
as Alexandra
Paul Mercier
as Michel Starzynski
Alexandre Le Provost
as Plainclothes policeman
Serpentine Teyssier
as Mrs Royer
Simon Eine
as Franck Levy
Julie Fournier
as Anna
Paige Barr
as Ornella Harris
Joanna Merlin
as Mrs. Rainsferd
George Birt
as Richard Rainsferd
Vinciane Millereau
as Nathalie Dufaure
Sylviane Fraval
as Colette
Dan Herzberg
as Jacques
Nancy Tate
as Alice
Frédérick Guillaud
as Richard Rainsferd, young
Maurice Lustyk
as Man with violin
Charlotte Poutrel
as Sarah Starzynski, adult
Maxim Driesen
as Edouard Tezac, child
Xavier Beja
as André Tezac
Jacqueline Noëlle
as Old woman
Jean-Pierre Hutinet
as Village doctor
Jonathan Kerr
as Camp police officer
Matthias Kress
as German officer at farm
Franck Beckmann
as German officer in train
Nicolas Seconda
as Gendarme Vel d'Hiv
François d'Aubigny
as Gendarme Vel d'Hiv
Stéphane Charond
as Camp gendarme
José Fumanal
as Camp gendarme
Gilles Louzon
as Camp gendarme
Pierre Nahori
as Policeman in train
Yasmine Ghazarian
as Camp woman
Naëva Lissonnet
as Little girl in camp
Céline Caussimon
as Nurse Vel d'Hiv
Claudine Acs
as Hysterical woman Vel d'Hiv
Viktoria Li
as Clinical nurse
Loïc Risser
as Male nurse
Franck Chilly
as Stretcher-bearer
Marco Florio
as Italian waiter
Alice St. Clair
as Mozart Cafe Waitress
Stéphanie Gesnel
as Young woman at the window
Gérard Couchet
as Old man at the window
Mark Fairchild
as Bob Rainsferd
Melinda Wade
as Young blonde American woman
Kiley Liddell
as Sarah Starzynski, baby
Brooke Liddell
as Sarah Starzynski, baby
Sophie Bacry Picciotto
as (voice)
Christian Vurpillot
as (voice)
Robert Rotsztein
as (voice)
Tatiana De Rosnay
as Client in restaurant (uncredited)
Ludovic Louis
as Trumpet player (uncredited)
Eric Moreau
as Gendarme (uncredited)
Anoushka Rava
as Italian woman (uncredited)
Jacques Chirac
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)