Drama · Czech Republic · 2023 · 1h 42m

The Optimist

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Director
Finn Taylor
Cast
Stephen Lang as Herbert Heller Elsie Fisher as Abbey Robin Weigert as Luke David Blumm as Young Herbert Heller Stephanie Heiner as Linda Josh Schell as Cop
Crew
Finn Taylor — Writer George Rush — Producer
Synopsis

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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Key Collaborators
Finn Taylor Director Finn Taylor Writer George Rush Producer
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