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Sarah's Key, originally titled Elle s’appelait Sarah, is a 2010 French drama and war film directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. The screenplay was written by Paquet-Brenner, Tatiana de Rosnay, and Serge Joncour, based on a work by de Rosnay. The cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, and Frédéric Pierrot. The narrative is set in Paris and addresses themes of World War II, the Holocaust, and human pregnancy.
The film was produced by companies including TF1, France 2, and Studio 37, with a budget of 10,000,000 and revenue of 17,511,906. It was filmed at the Vélodrome de Vincennes and Perdreauville. Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment and Netflix, it is available via video on demand. The film has a runtime of 111 minutes and features music by Max Richter. It was nominated for a César Award for Best Actress.
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7.3On 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.
Cast
- 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
Themes
- survivor's guilt
- good people
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- war film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Sarah's Key
- Main subject
- human pregnancy
- Director
- Gilles Paquet-Brenner
- Screenwriter
- Gilles Paquet-Brenner
- Cast member
- Jacques Chirac
- Composer
- Max Richter
- Production company
- France Télévisions
- Narrative location
- Paris
- Filming location
- Perdreauville
- Duration
- 111
- FilmAffinity ID
- 313148
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2011-12-15
- film editor
- Hervé Schneid
- title
- Elle s’appelait Sarah
- after a work by
- Tatiana de Rosnay
- distributed by
- Netflix
- nominated for
- César Award for Best Actress
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 59/100
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