Sarah's Key
“Uncover the mystery.”
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 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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Cast
65 people
Kristin Scott Thomas
Julia Jarmond
Known for
Slow Horses
Tomb Raider
Mélusine Mayance
Sarah Starzynski, child
Known for
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Ricky
Niels Arestrup
Jules Dufaure
Known for
A Prophet
War Horse
Frédéric Pierrot
Bertrand Tezac
Known for
Polisse
The Returned
Michel Duchaussoy
Edouard Tezac
Known for
Les Misérables
This Man Must Die
Dominique Frot
Genneviève Dufaure
Known for
Inside
Titane
Natasha Mashkevich
Rywka Starzynski
Also in
Olma Djon
No Wifi
Gisèle Casadesus
Mamé Tezac
Known for
My Afternoons with Margueritte
Royal Palace
Aidan Quinn
William Rainsferd
Known for
Elementary
Unknown
Sarah Ber
Rachel
Known for
The Coyotes
Arben Bajraktaraj
Wladyslaw Starzynski
Known for
Taken
Survive
James Gerard
Mike Bambers
Known for
The Serpent
Emilia Pérez
Gilles Paquet-Brenner Director · Serge Joncour Screenplay Tatiana De Rosnay Author
Worldwide gross $18M · Budget $10M · United States release July 22, 2011
Box office
Budget
$10,000,000
Worldwide gross
$17,511,906
Gross vs. budget
1.8×
Production
A Plus Image
Production
Hugo Productions
Production
Studio 37
Production
TF1 Droits Audiovisuels
Production
France 2 Cinéma
Production
TPS Star
Production
La Région Île-de-France
Production
Canal+
Production
France Télévisions
Production
StudioCanal
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Région Ile-de-France
Production
France
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Languages
Original title
Elle s'appelait Sarah
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French · German · Italian · Yiddish
Release dates
Canada · September 16, 2010
Theatrical
France · October 13, 2010
Theatrical
United States · July 22, 2011
Theatrical
Australia
December 23, 2010 · Theatrical
Belgium
October 13, 2010 · Theatrical
Brazil
October 6, 2011 · Premiere · Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
November 18, 2011 · Theatrical
Denmark
March 24, 2011 · Theatrical
Finland
May 13, 2011 · Theatrical
France
May 17, 2011 · Physical · DVD
Germany
October 3, 2011 · Premiere · Hamburg Film Festival
December 15, 2011 · Theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
December 8, 2011 · Theatrical
Israel
August 25, 2011 · Theatrical
Italy
January 13, 2012 · Theatrical
Japan
October 26, 2010 · Premiere · Tokyo International Film Festival
December 17, 2011 · Theatrical
Mexico
October 28, 2011 · Theatrical
Netherlands
October 28, 2010 · Theatrical
May 4, 2013 · TV · Nederland 1
November 5, 2013 · Physical · DVD
May 27, 2014 · Physical · Blu ray
New Zealand
April 14, 2011 · Theatrical
Norway
April 1, 2011 · Theatrical · Age Limit: 11
Portugal
September 27, 2013 · Physical · DVD
Serbia
March 3, 2011 · Theatrical
Singapore
January 5, 2012 · Theatrical
South Korea
August 11, 2011 · Theatrical
Spain
December 29, 2010 · Theatrical
Sweden
February 4, 2011 · Premiere · Göteborg International Film Festival
February 25, 2011 · Theatrical
Switzerland
November 3, 2010 · Theatrical
Taiwan
May 25, 2012 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
August 5, 2011 · Theatrical
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