Sarah's Key

Uncover the mystery.

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.

Kristin Scott Thomas

(Julia Jarmond)

Mélusine Mayance

(Sarah Starzynski, child)

Niels Arestrup

(Jules Dufaure)

Frédéric Pierrot

(Bertrand Tezac)

Michel Duchaussoy

(Edouard Tezac)

Dominique Frot

(Genneviève Dufaure)

Natasha Mashkevich

(Rywka Starzynski)

Gisèle Casadesus

(Mamé Tezac)

Aidan Quinn

(William Rainsferd)

Sarah Ber

(Rachel)

Arben Bajraktaraj

(Wladyslaw Starzynski)

James Gerard

(Mike Bambers)

Joseph Rezwin

(Joshua)

Kate Moran

(Alexandra)

Paul Mercier

(Michel Starzynski)

Alexandre Le Provost

(Plainclothes policeman)

Serpentine Teyssier

(Mrs Royer)

Simon Eine

(Franck Levy)

Julie Fournier

(Anna)

Paige Barr

(Ornella Harris)

Joanna Merlin

(Mrs. Rainsferd)

George Birt

(Richard Rainsferd)

Vinciane Millereau

(Nathalie Dufaure)

Sylviane Fraval

(Colette)

Dan Herzberg

(Jacques)

Nancy Tate

(Alice)

Frédérick Guillaud

(Richard Rainsferd, young)

Maurice Lustyk

(Man with violin)

Charlotte Poutrel

(Sarah Starzynski, adult)

Maxim Driesen

(Edouard Tezac, child)

Xavier Beja

(André Tezac)

Jacqueline Noëlle

(Old woman)

Jean-Pierre Hutinet

(Village doctor)

Jonathan Kerr

(Camp police officer)

Matthias Kress

(German officer at farm)

Franck Beckmann

(German officer in train)

Nicolas Seconda

(Gendarme Vel d'Hiv)

François d'Aubigny

(Gendarme Vel d'Hiv)

Stéphane Charond

(Camp gendarme)

José Fumanal

(Camp gendarme)

Gilles Louzon

(Camp gendarme)

Pierre Nahori

(Policeman in train)

Yasmine Ghazarian

(Camp woman)

Naëva Lissonnet

(Little girl in camp)

Céline Caussimon

(Nurse Vel d'Hiv)

Claudine Acs

(Hysterical woman Vel d'Hiv)

Viktoria Li

(Clinical nurse)

Loïc Risser

(Male nurse)

Franck Chilly

(Stretcher-bearer)

Marco Florio

(Italian waiter)

Alice St. Clair

(Mozart Cafe Waitress)

Stéphanie Gesnel

(Young woman at the window)

Gérard Couchet

(Old man at the window)

Mark Fairchild

(Bob Rainsferd)

Melinda Wade

(Young blonde American woman)

Kiley Liddell

(Sarah Starzynski, baby)

Brooke Liddell

(Sarah Starzynski, baby)

Sophie Bacry Picciotto

((voice))

Christian Vurpillot

((voice))

Robert Rotsztein

((voice))

Tatiana De Rosnay

(Client in restaurant (uncredited))

Ludovic Louis

(Trumpet player (uncredited))

Eric Moreau

(Gendarme (uncredited))

Anoushka Rava

(Italian woman (uncredited))

Jacques Chirac

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))