Sarah's Key
Released: 2010
Drama, War
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.
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Natasha Mashkevich, Gisèle Casadesus
Directed by: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Written by: Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Tatiana De Rosnay, Serge Joncour
Language: German, English, French, Italian, Yiddish
Scenes
The young protagonist Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) and her family are rounded up in a WWII detention camp. She says she really needs to use the toilet, so her father asks the guards where they can go. He points to a wall where men and women are relieving themselves. One woman is squatting with a stream of pee spraying onto the ground, while men are standing with their backs to the camera and pissing on the wall.
Alternate Titles
Appelait Sarah (Elle s')
Haar naam was Sarah
A Chave de Sarah
La llave de Sarah
Sarahs nyckel
Sarah's Schlüssel
Saras nøkkel
המפתח של שרה