Elle s'appelait Sarah (Sarah's Key) (2010)





On 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 send to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closed just before the police entered their appartment.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.


Articles on Elle s'appelait Sarah (Sarah's Key)

Charles Gant, The key to the market, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 10 (October), 2011 pp. 9

Iris Mazzacurati, Kristin Scott Thomas, in: Studio Ciné Live, nr. 19, 2010 pp. 138-141

Reviews

Kate Stables, Sarah's Key, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 9 (September), 2011 pp. 76

So. B., Elle s'appelait Sarah, in: Studio Ciné Live, nr. 19, 2010 pp. 42

Birgit Roschy, Sarahs Schlüssel, in: epd Film, nr. 12, 2011 pp. 47


Elle s'appelait Sarah
(Sarah's Key)

France 2010

Directed by
Gilles Paquet-Brenner

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Year: 2010
Country: France
Language: French
English
Italian
German
Yiddish
 
IMDb: 1668200