A SECRET (UN SECRET) - Presented by the 2009 Tucson Jewish Film Festival January 22, 2009

Adapted from Philippe Grimbert’s best selling novel, A SECRET (UN SECRET) is a story of passion and guilt in troubled times, which unfolds as a young teenager uncovers the shocking truth about his parents’ mysterious past.
Francois is an anxious-looking Parisian who has been informed that his elderly father has gone missing. This triggers flashbacks to 1955, when he was a shy, sickly child, intimidated by two conspicuously robust parents: an erstwhile champion swimmer and a gymnast. Francois, faced with the ghosts of the past, comes to learn that as a young Jewish couple living in Nazi-occupied France, his parents had to make difficult and heartrending choices to survive the war and the Holocaust.
Starring Patrick Bruel (O Jerusalem), Ludivine Sagnier (Swimming Pool), and Cécile de France (Avenue Montaigne).

PLUS: The award-winning short film, SPIELZEUGLAND (TOYLAND).
What happenns when a young German boy in 1942 believes that his Jewish neighbors are going to Toyland? A beautiful and moving story about lies and guilt.
(Running time: 13 mins., in German with English subtitles)

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