A Secret
A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.
2007-10-03 | 105 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Patrick BruelMaxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert
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Cécile de FranceTania Stirn / Grimbert
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Ludivine SagnierHannah Golda Stirn / Grinberg
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Julie DepardieuLouise
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Mathieu AmalricFrançois Grimbert at 37 years old
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Nathalie BoutefeuEsther
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Yves VerhoevenGuillaume
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Yves JacquesLe commandant Beraud
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Robert PlagnolRobert Stirn
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Laura PresgurvicL'amie de Louise
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Claire Romain
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