The Optimist

6.8 2026 102 min
NR
Drama

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…

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Director
Finn Taylor
Writer
Finn Taylor
Classification
NR

Cast

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Stephen Lang Herbert Heller
Elsie Fisher Abbey
Luke David Blumm Young Herbert Heller
Robin Weigert Ruth
Leah Pipes Jane
Ben Geurens Gabe
Ursula Parker Sabrina
Slavko Sobin Herbert's Father
Stella Stocker Herbert's Mother
Oskar Hes Hein Heller
Stephanie Heiner Linda
Josh Schell Cop
Jake Lucas Centurion (uncredited)

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