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Release Date
Sep 12, 2008
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
During World War II, 8-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) and his family leave Berlin to take up residence near the concentration camp where his father (David Thewlis) has just become commandant. Unhappy and lonely, he wanders out behind his house one day and finds Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy of his age. Though the barbed-wire fence of the camp separates them, the boys begin a forbidden friendship, oblivious to the real nature of their surroundings.
Starring
| David Thewlis | Father |
| Vera Farmiga | Elsa |
| Rupert Friend | Lt. Kotler |
| Asa Butterfield | Bruno |
| Jack Scanlon | Shmuel |
| Amber Beattie | Gretel |
| Cara Horgan | Maria |
| Richard Johnson | Grandpa |
| Sheila Hancock | Grandma |
| David Heyman | Pavel |
| Jim Norton | Herr Liszt |
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Writer-director Mark Herman took on tough material when he chose to adapt "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." The 2006 young-adult novel by John Boyne cleaves to a young boy's point of view and his unlikely friendship with a concentration camp inmate to construct an allegory about the Holocaust. Having overheard grown-up conversations, the boy refers to Auschwitz as "Out-With" and the Fuehrer as "the Fury," devices that the film cannot depend upon. Translating this dark fable to the screen, Herman for the most part maintains the book's oversimplification of historical events, but he nonetheless crafts an affecting drama that refuses to soft-pedal its harrowing conclusion.
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