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Nov 26, 2008 · A drama war film based on John Boyne's novel about a forbidden friendship between a German boy and a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, videos, photos and more on IMDb.
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- Drama, War
- Mark Herman
- 2008-11-26
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (released as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in North America) is a 2008 Holocaust historical drama film written and directed by Mark Herman. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne.
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A family film about a boy who befriends a Jewish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. See critics' reviews, ratings, cast, and streaming options for this Holocaust drama.
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- Mark Herman
- PG-13
- David Thewlis
Nov 5, 2008 · A film review by the late critic Roger Ebert, who praises the film's powerful impact and its exploration of the Nazi mindset. He compares the story to the Enron scandal and the Wall Street crash, and questions the value system that allows evil to function.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 historical fiction novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. The plot concerns a German boy named Bruno whose father is the commandant of Auschwitz and Bruno's friendship with a Jewish detainee named Shmuel.
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. Bruno an eight-year-old boy from Berlin, Germany is moved with his mother, Elder sister, SS Commander father to a ...
