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Film / 2026
The Optimist
Directed by
Finn Taylor
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.
The story
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
Stephen LangHerbert Heller
Elsie FisherAbbey
Luke David BlummYoung Herbert Heller
Robin WeigertRuth
Leah PipesJane
Ben GeurensGabe
Ursula ParkerSabrina
Slavko SobinHerbert's Father
Stella StockerHerbert's Mother
Oskar HesHein Heller
Stephanie HeinerLinda
Josh SchellCop
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