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The Optimist

2023
Directed byFinn Taylor
1h 42m

Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.

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Stephen LangHerbert HellerElsie FisherAbbeyRobin Weigert
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Luke David BlummYoung Herbert Heller
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Jake LucasCenturion (uncredited)
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
7.0

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