The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, released in the United States as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is a 2008 historical-drama film based on the novel of the same name by Irish writer John Boyne. Directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman, it stars Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga and Rupert Friend. A Holocaust drama, the film explores the horror of a World War II extermination camp through the eyes of two 8-year-old boys; one the son of the camp's Nazi commandant, the other a Jewish inmate. SS officer Ralf and his wife Elsa move from Berlin to the... countryside with their children—twelve-year-old Gretel and 8-year-old Bruno —after Ralf is promoted to commandant of a Nazi concentration camp, implied to be Auschwitz. Bruno is confined to the front grounds of their new home and craves companionship and adventure. He disobeys his parents by sneaking out and trekking through the woods to an isolated, unguarded corner of the camp, which he initially believes to be a farm. He befriends Shmuel , a boy his own age. They meet in the same spot everyday.
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| Release date: | August 28, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Mark Herman |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 93 Minutes |
| Producer: | David Heyman |
| Editor: | Michael Ellis |
| Music by: | James Horner |
| Cinematography: | Benoît Delhomme |
| Screenplay by: | Mark Herman |
| Estimated budget: | $12,500,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |