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A Secret

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20071h 45mDrama
directed by Claude Miller

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

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6.5 / 10
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6.8 / 10
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72 / 100
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78%

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Synopsis

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.

Cast

Patrick Bruel·Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert
Cécile de France·Tania Stirn / Grimbert
Ludivine Sagnier·Hannah Golda Stirn / Grinberg
Julie Depardieu·Louise
Mathieu Amalric·François Grimbert at 37 years old
Nathalie Boutefeu·Esther
Yves Verhoeven·Guillaume
Yves Jacques·Le commandant Beraud
Sam Garbarski·Joseph
Orlando Nicoletti·Simon à 7 ans