The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
United Kingdom, United States
2008
94 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
Synopsis
Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pajamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination. —IMDb
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JolieG1
22May12
An okay movie overall. I feel like this movie should have made me cry and move me to extreme tears but it didn't. I've cried at Forest Gump but surprisingly not at this movie which is odd. Maybe it's because I watched it in a large group , and I'd be willing to watch it again but for me, it didn't really make the viewers become emotionally attached to the boys much at all.
Daniel Melnikov
21Mar12
To show the horrors of war through the eyes of a child was best used in the "Life is beautiful" by Benigni. I know it is a book adaptation, so not much that the director could do to make it better. As a matter of fact, after the Russian war movies ("The cranes are flying", "Come and see" etc.) this one looks very artificial, if you can use the word to characterize it.
Andrés Baldíos
7Jan12
Film adaptations are supposed to be, not a different version of a book as it is, but a different depiction of circumstances under the leading of the paragraphs. I may be absolutely wrong... but this film is as plain as a novel by Isabelle Allende. I wanted to see an obscure and cold Nazi father and all I got was fucking Professor Lupin with a swastika. And the children... they look more like actors than children.
Archie Del Mundo
24Dec11
Am i supposed to cry because the commandant's son gets wrongly gassed as opposed to an entire race being wiped out? The humanity perceived through the eyes of an innocent child is entirely moving and honest...but holocaust is an ultra-sensitive subject, and no one is allowed to make mistakes
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
By Amir Syarif Siregar on April 21, 2010
Film lain yang mengambil tema Holocaust sebagai latar belakang cerita. Berbeda dengan beberapa film bertema sama yang beredar pada tahun-tahun sebelumnya, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas menggambarkan… read review
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