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Last modified: Sep. 2, 2011

Sarah's Key

Release Date: Friday, July 22, 2011 NYC/LA

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas Niels Arestrup

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 51 m

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Plot
Sarah's Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down. In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah's family was forced to leave is about to become her own. As Julia's life becomes entwined with Sarah's heart-breaking story she must tackle the complex issue of how to live with the past and keep moving forward.
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The film's director Gilles Paquet-Brenner last directed Crooked House and Dark Places. The film's writer Gilles Paquet-Brenner last wrote Dark Places and Walled In.

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  • Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's New York Times best seller.

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Parent Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for thematic material including disturbing situations involving the Holocaust
Runtime
1 hr, 51 m
Tagline
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Also known as
Elle S'Appelait Sarah

Language
English

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Sarah's Key was released in New York / Los Angeles on Friday, July 22, 2011. in around 5 theaters There were 6 other movies released on the same date, including Friends with Benefits, Captain America: The First Avenger and Another Earth.

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