The Optimist (2026)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2026-03-11
Runtime: 102 minutes
Director: Finn Taylor
Top Cast
- Stephen Lang as Herbert Heller
- Elsie Fisher as Abbey
- Luke David Blumm as Young Herbert Heller
- Robin Weigert as Ruth
- Leah Pipes as Jane
- Ben Geurens as Gabe
- Ursula Parker as Sabrina
- Slavko Sobin as Herbert's Father
- Stella Stocker as Herbert's Mother
- Oskar Hes as Hein Heller
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