FILMS

In the summer of 1942, the French police rounded up 13,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, under the Vichy government that collaborated with the Nazis. For the first time, this hidden chapter of French history is dramatized on screen. The film focuses on the Weismann’s and their neighbors in the Jewish quarter as they are detained in a stadium and a holding camp, their only help coming from a Jewish doctor (Jean Reno, “The Da Vinci Code”) and a Protestant nurse (Melanie Laurent, “Inglourious Basterds.”)  The cast of children provides many of the film’s most searing moments. Based on years of research by writer/director Roselyne Bosch and noted Holocaust expert Serge Klarsfeld.