IONCINEMA.com presents: Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

CAST AND CREW

Director

Mark Herman

Cast (alphabetical order):

Vera Farmiga

Rupert Friend

David Thewlis

Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Release Date: Nov 7, 2008 - Wide Release
Distributor: Miramax Films
Film Genre: War Drama
Country: United States

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Based on John Boyne's novel, this revolves around around 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.

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2007-03-26
Variety reports that Miramax Films is developing the project and set it up with David Heyman's Heyday Films to produce. Vera Farmiga will star. Filmmaker Mark Herman is set to begin shooting in Budapest at the end of April.