The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    Genre
    Drama, War
  • |
  • Runtime
    94 mins
  • |
  • Rated
    PG-13
  • |
  • Release Date
    2008
  • |
  • Countries
    USA, UK
  • |
  • Languages
    English
  • |
DIRECTED BY:
Mark Herman
WRITTEN BY:
John Boyne, Mark Herman
CAST INCLUDES:
Vera Farmiga, Asa Butterfield, Rupert Friend, David Thewlis, David Hayman

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

Director Mark Herman (BRASSED OFF, PURELY BETTER) presents a film adaptation of the fiction novel of the same name, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS. Starring Asa Butterfield (HUGO, ENDER'S GAME) as Bruno, a young German boy who begins a forbidden friendship with Shmuel, played by Jack Scanlon (MARRIED SINGLE OTHER, RUNAWAY), a young Jewish boy imprisoned in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

SYNOPSIS

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    Genre
    Drama, War
  • |
  • Runtime
    94 mins
  • |
  • Rated
    PG-13
  • |
  • Release Date
    2008
  • |
  • Countries
    USA, UK
  • |
  • Languages
    English
  • |
DIRECTED BY
Mark Herman
WRITTEN BY
John Boyne, Mark Herman
CAST INCLUDES
Vera Farmiga, Asa Butterfield, Rupert Friend, David Thewlis, David Hayman
Director Mark Herman (BRASSED OFF, PURELY BETTER) presents a film adaptation of the fiction novel of the same name, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS. Starring Asa Butterfield (HUGO, ENDER'S GAME) as Bruno, a young German boy who begins a forbidden friendship with Shmuel, played by Jack Scanlon (MARRIED SINGLE OTHER, RUNAWAY), a young Jewish boy imprisoned in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.