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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (12A)
- Consumer Advice: Contains scenes of holocaust threat and horror
- Run time: 1 hour 34 mins
- Genre: Thriller / Drama
- Release date: 12th September 2008
- Starring: Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend
- Directed by: Mark Herman
- Official Website: www.thefilmfactory.co.uk/boy
- Distributor: Buena Vista International
Plot Synopsis
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.