Un secret

• Drama

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.

A Secret is a 2007 French drama film following François Grimbert, a physician who discovers his family's Jewish heritage in 1953 and uncovers the buried secrets and wartime tragedy that shaped his childhood. Directed by Claude Miller, the film explores how his parents' efforts to hide their identity profoundly affected his upbringing and family relationships.

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