A Secret (2007)

10/03/2007 (FR) • 1h 45m

Drama

A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.

Overview

In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.

Top Billed Cast

Patrick Bruel

Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert

Cécile de France

Tania Stirn / Grimbert

Ludivine Sagnier

Hannah Golda Stirn / Grinberg

Mathieu Amalric

François Grimbert at 37 years old

Yves Jacques

Le commandant Beraud


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Status

Released

Original Language

French

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