
Feature film — 2007
A Secret (2007)
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.
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A high-signal pick with 161 votes.
La Région Île-de-France / France 3 Cinéma / Canal+
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Director: Claude Miller
On screen
Cast & crew

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
