The Optimist (2026)
2026 · 1h 42m · Drama
Genres: Drama
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…
Director: Finn Taylor
Writers: Finn Taylor
Cast
Stephen Lang as Herbert HellerElsie Fisher as AbbeyRobin WeigertLuke David Blumm as Young Herbert HellerStephanie Heiner as LindaJosh Schell as CopJake Lucas as Centurion (uncredited)More like this
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