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.
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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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- Release date
- Mar 11, 2026
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
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- Language
- English
- Country
- Czech Republic, United States of America
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