Released:
2007-10-03

Overview:
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.

Director:
Claude Miller

Runtime:
1h 45min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Patrick Bruel
  as
  Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert
• 
  Cécile de France
  as
  Tania Stirn / Grimbert
• 
  Ludivine Sagnier
  as
  Hannah Golda Stirn / Grinberg
• 
  Julie Depardieu
  as
  Louise
• 
  Mathieu Amalric
  as
  François Grimbert at 37 years old