A Secret (2007)
Original title: Un secret
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A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.
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.
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Patrick BruelMaxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert
Cécile de FranceTania Stirn / Grimbert
Ludivine SagnierHannah Golda Stirn / Grinberg
Julie DepardieuLouise
Mathieu AmalricFrançois Grimbert at 37 years old
Nathalie BoutefeuEsther
Yves VerhoevenGuillaume
Yves JacquesLe commandant BeraudSam GarbarskiJosephOrlando NicolettiSimon à 7 ansValentin VigourtFrançois à 7 ansQuentin DubuisFrançois à 14 ansMovie DNA
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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.
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A Secret has a runtime of 105 minutes.
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