A Secret
03/10/2007
2h



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
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