A Secret

2007 · 105 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 3,377 VOTES · DIR. Claude Miller

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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.

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Dialogue Timeline — 907 lines

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00:00:39 THIS STORY AND ITS MAIN CHARACTERS ARE BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.
00:07:39 Nothing?
00:10:07 I hate your shots.
00:14:47 Don't tell Grandpa you were baptized.
00:16:36 Didn't I serve you?
00:21:15 I imagined they shared a love of sports
00:27:26 I have to go.
00:32:11 Simon, what are you up to? Decided not to eat today?
00:34:51 A kiss?
00:40:17 She'll give me lots of children.
00:44:13 For Simon, from Tania.
00:47:49 Hear that? You married an anti-Semitic ostrich.
00:50:23 As handsome as ever.
00:53:07 There.
00:56:01 Laws are laws.
00:58:52 'and spoke the magic words:
01:03:41 Women are the unknown soldier.
01:07:01 St. Gaultier is heaven.
01:10:32 The river will help you forget the anxiety and hardships.
01:14:55 The Demarcation Line was 1 mile away.
01:25:17 Oh, come on.
01:28:38 To be outraged. There.
01:36:29 I'm glad you came.
01:40:33 A village elder had given me its owner's name:

Cast & Characters

Cécile de France Tania Stirn Cécile de France Grimbert Patrick Bruel Maxime Nathan Grinberg Patrick Bruel Grimbert Ludivine Sagnier Hannah Golda Stirn Ludivine Sagnier Grinberg Julie Depardieu Louise Mathieu Amalric François Grimbert à 37 ans Nathalie Boutefeu Esther Yves Verhoeven Georges Yves Jacques Commandant Béraud Sam Garbarski Joseph

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed907
Dialogue density8.6 lines / min
First line00:00:39
Final line01:40:33

Production Record

DirectorClaude Miller
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes3,377