The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Directors: Mark Herman

Actors: Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Sheila Hancock, Richard Johnson, Jim Norton, David Heyman, Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Cara Horgan, Amber Beattie, Ivan Verebely

Running Time: 94mins

Consumer Advice: Contains scenes of holocaust threat and horror

Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer whose promotion takes the family from their comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area where the lonely boy finds nothing to do and no-one to play with. Crushed by boredom and compelled by curiosity, Bruno ignores his mother’s repeated instructions not to explore the back garden and heads for the ‘farm’ he has seen in the near distance. There he meets Shmuel, a boy his own age who lives a parallel, alien existence on the other side of a barbed wire fence. Bruno's encounter with the boy in the striped pyjamas leads him from innocence to a dawning awareness of the adult world around them as his meetings with Shmuel develop into a friendship with devastating consequences.

The film, adapted from John Boyne's critically acclaimed internationally best-selling novel of the same name, tells the compelling story of an unlikely friendship between two boys living on opposite sides of a fence.

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