SARAH'S KEY
aka ELLE S'APPELAIT SARAH

Year: 2010
USA: The Weinstein Company
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierro, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Natasha Mashkevich, Gisele Casadesus, Aidan Quinn
Director: Giles Paquet-Brenner
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 110 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for thematic material including disturbing situations involving the Holocaust
UK Certificate: 12A contains emotionally intense scenes and a Holocaust theme
USA Release Date: 22 July 2011 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 5 August 2011 (Limited Release)

Synopsis

Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel, SARAH’S KEY tells the story of an American journalist on the brink of making big life decisions regarding her marriage and her unborn child.

What starts off as research for an article about the Vel’d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up as a journey towards self-discovery as she stumbles upon a terrible secret and discovers the heartbreaking story of a Jewish family forced out of their home, a home that is now her own. As she starts to see, live, and breathe through Sarah, the eldest daughter, her world is turned upside down. Can one put aside shadows from the past ?