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Overview

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7.0/10   948 votes
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Director:
Claude Miller
Writers:
Philippe Grimbert (novel)
Claude Miller (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
3 October 2007 (France) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Plot:
A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret. | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 10 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
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User Comments:
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You more (21 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Cécile De France ... Tania Stirn / Grimbert
Patrick Bruel ... Maxime Nathan Grinberg / Grimbert
Ludivine Sagnier ... Hannah Golda Stirn / Grinberg
Julie Depardieu ... Louise
Mathieu Amalric ... François Grimbert à 37 ans
Nathalie Boutefeu ... Esther
Yves Verhoeven ... Guillaume

Yves Jacques ... Le commandant Béraud
Sam Garbarski ... Joseph
Orlando Nicoletti ... Simon Grinberg à 7 ans
Valentin Vigourt ... François Grimbert à 7 ans
Quentin Dubuis ... François Grimbert à 14 ans
Myriam Fuks ... La mère d'Hannah
Robert Plagnol ... Robert Stirn
Michel Israel ... Le père d'Hannah
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Secret (International: English title) (festival title) (USA) (new title)
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Runtime:
Argentina:105 min
Country:
France
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS
Certification:
Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Argentina:13 | Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) | Australia:M
Filming Locations:
Baraize, Indre, France more
Company:
Canal+ more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Eva Green was considered for the role of Tania and Pascal Elbé for the role of Maxime more
Movie Connections:
References La grande illusion (1937) more
Soundtrack:
Tout ça c'est pour nous more

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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You, 13 August 2009
10/10
Author: robert-temple-1 from United Kingdom

Claude Miller is one of the finest of modern French directors, and this film is one of his best. As many others have said before me, 'Un Secret' ('A Secret') verges on perfection in every way. The direction, the actors, the novel, the script, are all superb. The film is based upon a best-selling novel by Philippe Grimbert, which tells what is apparently a true story, of a revelation about what really happened in wartime, as experienced by a son who has never been told the truth. The story takes places at various times and has flashbacks and flash-forwards. The savage oppression of the Vichy Regime in France is here shown in all its fascist relentlessness: French policemen picking up French citizens to send them off to be gassed in Germany! Children too! And thereby hangs the tale: the 'imaginary brother' whom the lead character used to play with in his imagination when he was a child is someone he later discovers really existed, and really was his older brother so that it must have been a psychic impression. But the older brother was sent off to his death, with his mother, and a conspiracy of silence about the true events became a family tradition. The stately and athletic figure of the ironically named Cecile de France (ironical because she was born not in France but in Belgium) wafts through this film continually, and to call her redolent with vibrant beauty and possessor of a kind of 'ideal Aryan woman' quality would be an understatement. She positively exudes allure, in the way that some fruit trees drip sap. Ludivine Sagnier, who used to be a child actress, but has long since matured successfully, does an incredibly sensitive job of portraying the intangible hysteria and willfulness of a young Jewish woman who makes a false decision at a moment of crisis during the War, at a point when she has become irrationally defiant and slightly unhinged. This is a perfectly judged film, which must have meant a lot to the director (who wrote the script himself), and everyone involved seems to have contributed his or her best to bring this tragic tale to life in an unforgettable manner.

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