

He befriends Shmuel, another eight-year-old boy. Bruno struggles to adjust to the rhetoric in the teaching after Pavel, a doctor-turned-family slave, comes to Bruno's aid after he sustains a minor injury.īruno sneaks into the woods, arriving at a barbed wire fence surrounding the camp. This combined with Gretel's crush on Lieutenant Kurt Kotler, a young colleague of her father's, makes Gretel fanatical in her support for the Nazi agenda. Ralf organises Herr Liszt, a private tutor, to teach Nazi propaganda and antisemitism to indoctrinate Bruno and his sister, Gretel. Bruno notices an extermination camp near the back garden from his bedroom window, but believes it to be a farm his mother Elsa forbids him from going in the back garden. It received generally positive reviews from critics for being touching but was panned by scholars for misrepresenting elements of the Holocaust.īruno, an eight-year-old German boy living in Berlin, is uprooted to rural occupied Poland with his family after his father Ralf, an SS officer, is promoted. It was released in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2008. Set in Nazi-occupied Poland, the film follows the son of an SS officer who befriends a Holocaust prisoner of his age. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (released as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in North America) is a 2008 historical drama film written and directed by Mark Herman.
