The Holocaust. A horific moment is the history of humanity. A time of death, despair and fear. Plus, it's a great topic for a movie.
Bruno (played by one of the greatest child actors of our time, Asa Butterfield) is the son of a Shutzstaffel officer whose family move from Berlin where his father, Ralf, is promoted to Commandant of a Nazi concentration camp. Bruno is told to keep away from the camp, from which he lives only a couple of miles, a rule that he disobeys. He befriends a young Jew named Shmuel through the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp. They meet there every day where Bruno brings his friend food and games to play through the fence. After building a strong friendship, Shmuel asks for Bruno's help in a plan to find his lost father inside the camp.
Mark Herman has done a beautiful job bringing this book to the big screens. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is one of the best Holocaust films you could choose to see and the friendship between Bruno and Shmuel just shows you that nothing can stop friendship. An great movie.
9/10
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