Sarah's Key (2010)

In July, 1942, the French Police breaks in the apartment of the Jewish Starzynski family and arrest them in the Velodrome of Vel' d'Hiv and then in a local concentration camp with other Jewish families. Ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Melusine Mayance) hides her brother Michel (Paul Mercier) in a closet in her bedroom to escape from the police officers but she does not succeed on giving the closet key to a neighbor to rescue her brother. When her parents are transferred to a German concentration camp, Sarah flees from the French guards with another girl and they meet the family of Jules Dufaure (Niels Arestrup), that helps her to return to Paris to rescue her younger brother. In 2009, American journalist Julia Jarmond (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) and her French husband Bertrand Tezac (Frederic Pierrot) plan to reform his apartment in Paris to live with their teenage daughter. Julia is assigned to write an article about the notorious deportation of French Jews to German concentration camps in 1942. During her investigation, she learns that the apartment of her husband's family belonged to Sarah's family. She becomes obsessed by Sarah's life and to find the fate of the little girl.