The Optimist

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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

102 min

Cast:

Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Luke David Blumm

Quality:

HD

Director:

Finn Taylor

Release:

2026

Country:

Czechia, United States

Rating:

6.8