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The Optimist

The Optimist

Drama
2026, Movie, 1h 42min
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.
Director: Finn Taylor
Cast: Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher

Cast

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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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