Story :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.
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
Joseph RezwinJoshua
Kate MoranAlexandra
Paul MercierMichel Starzynski
Alexandre Le ProvostPlainclothes policeman
Serpentine TeyssierMrs Royer
Simon EineFranck Levy
Julie FournierAnna
Paige BarrOrnella Harris
Joanna MerlinMrs. Rainsferd
George BirtRichard Rainsferd
Vinciane MillereauNathalie Dufaure
Sylviane FravalColette
Dan HerzbergJacques
Nancy TateAlice
Frédérick GuillaudRichard Rainsferd, young
Maurice LustykMan with violin
Charlotte PoutrelSarah Starzynski, adult
Maxim DriesenEdouard Tezac, child
Xavier BejaAndré Tezac
Jacqueline NoëlleOld woman
Jean-Pierre HutinetVillage doctor
Jonathan KerrCamp police officer
Matthias KressGerman officer at farm
Franck BeckmannGerman officer in train
Nicolas SecondaGendarme Vel d'Hiv
François d'AubignyGendarme Vel d'Hiv
Stéphane CharondCamp gendarme
José FumanalCamp gendarme
Gilles LouzonCamp gendarme
Pierre NahoriPoliceman in train
Yasmine GhazarianCamp woman
Naëva LissonnetLittle girl in camp
Céline CaussimonNurse Vel d'Hiv
Claudine AcsHysterical woman Vel d'Hiv
Viktoria LiClinical nurse
Loïc RisserMale nurse
Franck ChillyStretcher-bearer
Marco FlorioItalian waiter
Alice St. ClairMozart Cafe Waitress
Stéphanie GesnelYoung woman at the window
Gérard CouchetOld man at the window
Mark FairchildBob Rainsferd
Melinda WadeYoung blonde American woman
Kiley LiddellSarah Starzynski, baby
Brooke LiddellSarah Starzynski, baby
Sophie Bacry Picciotto(voice)
Christian Vurpillot(voice)
Robert Rotsztein(voice)
Tatiana De RosnayClient in restaurant (uncredited)