2026
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1h 42m
The Optimist
IMDb
9.4
95%
6.8
Dramat
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Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Directed by: Finn Taylor
Stephen Lang
Herbert Heller
Elsie Fisher
Abbey
Luke David Blumm
Young Herbert Heller
Robin Weigert
Ruth
Leah Pipes
Jane
Ben Geurens
Gabe
Ursula Parker
Sabrina
Slavko Sobin
Herbert's Father
