The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

1hr 33min - Rated PG-13

Movie: Drama

Director

Mark Herman

Cast

Amber Beattie
Asa Butterfield
Cara Horgan
David Heyman
David Thewlis
Jim Norton
Richard Johnson
Rupert Friend
Sheila Hancock
Vera Farmiga

Writers

John Boyne
Mark Herman

About This Movie

"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is a fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of Nazi commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined. The imagined story of Bruno and Shmuel sheds light on the brutality, senselessness and devastating consequences of war from an unusual point of view. Together, their tragic journey helps recall the millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust.

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salon.com

When you use Nazi death camps as Oscar bait, you know you've hit rock bottom. (salon.com)

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See the Holocaust trivialized, glossed over, kitsched up, commercially exploited and hijacked for a tragedy about a Nazi family. Better yet and in ... (movies.nytimes.com)

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