
Release Date:
November 7, 2008 (limited)
Studio:
Miramax Films
Director:
Mark Herman
Screenwriter:
Mark Herman
Starring:
David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend, Asa Butterfield, Jack Scalon
Genre:
Drama
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 (for some mature thematic material involving the Holocaust)
Official Website:
BoyintheStripedPajamas.com
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DVD:
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Plot Summary:
"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 Schmuel, 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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