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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Running Time: 94 minutes
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Genre: Drama/Historical drama
Language: English
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance)

During World War II, 8-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) and his family leave Berlin to take up residence near the concentration camp where his father (David Thewlis) has just become commandant. Unhappy and lonely, he wanders out behind his house one day and finds Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy of his age. Though the barbed-wire fence of the camp separates them, the boys begin a forbidden friendship, oblivious to the real nature of their surroundings.

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My father, the Nazi commandant
A little boy grows up next to a concentration camp in the upsetting The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

November 20 2008 by Paul Matwychuk in Film Reviews



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