A Secret

1h 45m
Drama
6.4

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
Valentin Vigourt
François à 7 ans
Quentin Dubuis
François à 14 ans
Robert Plagnol
Robert Stirn
Laura Presgurvic
L'amie de Louise
Claire Romain
Unknown

Crew

Claude Miller
Director, Writer
Natalie Carter
Writer
Philippe Grimbert
Novel
Gérard de Battista
Director of Photography
Zbigniew Preisner
Music

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