Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 11/21/08 Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for some mature thematic material involving the Holocaust Running Time 1 hour 33 minutes Genre Drama Director Mark Herman Writer Mark Herman Cast Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend Rupert Friend, David Hayman, Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Amber Beattie Studio Miramax |
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS (2008)
SYNOPSIS
Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi
officer whose promotion takes the family from their
comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area where
the lonely boy finds nothing to do and no-one to play
with. Crushed by boredom and compelled by curiosity,
Bruno ignores his mother’s repeated instructions not
to explore the back garden and heads for the ‘farm’ he
has seen in the near distance. There he meets
Shmuel, a boy his own age who lives a parallel, alien
existence on the side of a barbed wire fence. Bruno’s
encounter with the boy in the striped pajamas leads
him from innocence to a dawning awareness o the
adult world around them as his meetings with Shmuel
develop into a friendship with devastating
consequences.
-© Miramax
Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi
officer whose promotion takes the family from their
comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area where
the lonely boy finds nothing to do and no-one to play
with. Crushed by boredom and compelled by curiosity,
Bruno ignores his mother’s repeated instructions not
to explore the back garden and heads for the ‘farm’ he
has seen in the near distance. There he meets
Shmuel, a boy his own age who lives a parallel, alien
existence on the side of a barbed wire fence. Bruno’s
encounter with the boy in the striped pajamas leads
him from innocence to a dawning awareness o the
adult world around them as his meetings with Shmuel
develop into a friendship with devastating
consequences.
-© Miramax
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