The read
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 77% of the 6,933 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
724 audience votes
Key crew
- Max RichterOriginal Music Composer
- Gilles Paquet-BrennerDirector
- Serge JoncourScreenplay
- Gilles Paquet-BrennerScreenplay
Cast
- Kristin Scott ThomasJulia Jarmond
- Mélusine MayanceSarah Starzynski, child
- Niels ArestrupJules Dufaure
- Frédéric PierrotBertrand Tezac
- Michel DuchaussoyEdouard Tezac
- Dominique FrotGenneviève Dufaure
- Natasha MashkevichRywka Starzynski
- Gisèle CasadesusMamé Tezac
- Aidan QuinnWilliam Rainsferd
- Sarah BerRachel
- Arben BajraktarajWladyslaw Starzynski
- James GerardMike Bambers
