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The Optimist (2026)
Directed by Finn Taylor
Drama · 1h 42m
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.
Cast
Stephen Lang
Elsie Fisher
Luke David Blumm
Robin Weigert
Leah Pipes
Ben Geurens
Ursula Parker
Slavko Sobin
Stella Stocker
Oskar Hes
Stephanie Heiner
Josh Schell
Crew
- Director
- Finn Taylor
- Writer
- Finn Taylor
- Producer
- George Rush
Details
- Release date
- 2026-03-11
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, German
- Countries
- Czech Republic, United States of America
- Production
- Stillking Films, Convoke Media, Witchcraft Motion Picture Company