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A Secret

A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.

A Secret

2007-10-03
  • Drama
1 hour 45 minutes

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.

Claude MillerDirector
Philippe GrimbertNovel
Natalie CarterWriter
Claude MillerWriter

Top Billed Cast

Patrick Bruel

Patrick Bruel

Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert

Cécile de France

Cécile de France

Tania Stirn / Grimbert

Ludivine Sagnier

Ludivine Sagnier

Hannah Golda Stirn / Grinberg

Julie Depardieu

Julie Depardieu

Louise

Mathieu Amalric

Mathieu Amalric

François Grimbert at 37 years old

Nathalie Boutefeu

Nathalie Boutefeu

Esther

Yves Verhoeven

Yves Verhoeven

Guillaume

Yves Jacques

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 Plagnol

Robert Stirn

Laura Presgurvic

Laura Presgurvic

L'amie de Louise

Claire Romain

Claire Romain

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