The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Based on The New York Times best-selling novel by John Boyne, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS is a powerful fictional story that offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the eyes 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.


Directed by Mark Herman
Written by Based On "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas" By John Boyne - Written For The Screen By Mark Herman
Cast
Vera Farmiga [Mother]
David Thewlis [Father]
Rupert Friend [Lieutenant Kotler]
Asa Butterfield [Bruno]
Jack Scanlon [Shmuel]
Amber Beattie [Gretel]
Richard Johnson [Grandpa]
Sheila Hancock [Grandma]
David Hayman [Pavel]
Jim Norton [Herr Liszt]
Cara Horgan [Maria]
Zac Mattoon-O'Brien [Leon]
Domonkos Németh [Martin]
Henry Kingsmill [Karl]
Zsuzsa Holl [Berlin Cook]
László Áron [Lars]
Charlie Baker [Palm Court Singer]
Iván Verebély [Meinberg]
Béla Fesztbaum [Schultz]

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