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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Film Details

Year

2008

Duration

90 minutes

Genres

Drama

Language

English (English subtitles)


Synopsis

Based on John Boyne's acclaimed children's novel, this moving, educational and necessarily upsetting drama tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes of two young boys - one the son of a Nazi, the other a Jewish child imprisoned in a concentration camp. Bruno is the eight-year-old son of a German commandant and is told that the barbed-wire enclosed camp next to his house is a farm, and its striped-uniform wearing prisoners merely workers. Bruno's eyes are gradually opened to the true horror of what's going on around him, however, when he befriends a boy his own age from the other side of the fence.

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This film contains scenes of Holocaust threat and horror.

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