The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

Set amidst WWII, this heartwrenching tale of kindness, friendship, loss, and injustice is depicted through the pure and honest hearts of children.

Reeling with a quiet intensity and an emotionally devastating truth, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, is a Holocaust drama told through the eyes of an innocent eight year old boy named Bruno, whose the son of a Nazi officer. With his family stationed in an isolated countryside area, Bruno’s curiosity leads him to befriend a Jewish boy of the same age, imprisoned in a concentration camp on the other side of the barbed wire. Unbeknownst to anyone else, the two children form an unlikely friendship, despite the unspeakable horrors that surround them.