The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
During World War II, 8 year old Bruno started out at the concentration camp where his father was commandant, Despite his parents' warning, he make friendship with a boy in striped pyjamas. A Jewish boy.
1965 in Csabrendek, Hungary
10 June 1945, Kecskemét, Hungary
24 April 1969
20 March 1963, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
1 October 1981, Oxfordshire, England, UK
4 January 1938, Dublin, Ireland
23 November 1949, Budapest, Hungary
6 August 1998, Kent, England, UK
1950, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1 April 1997, Islington, London, England, UK
1993, UK
22 February 1933, Blackgang, Isle of Wight, England, UK
7 December 1937, Budapest, Hungary
16 March 1968
6 August 1973, Clifton, New Jersey, USA
24 January 1972, Hungary
30 July 1927, Upminster, Essex, England, UK
6 January 1975, Eger, Hungary
August 14, 2009
Built upon a powerful but gimmicky end, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas would make a fine short. As a full-length feature, though, the pajamas wear thin quickly.
May 13, 2009
The result isn't a deep film, but rather a profound one.
November 13, 2008
Although it's told from the perspective of a child, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is as shattering as any film about the Holocaust could be, perhaps more so.
May 01, 2009
We are left in no doubt about the brutality of what's going on there but it's almost entirely off-screen. Still, the film is terribly confronting.
July 12, 2012
Not without its qualities, the movie ultimately does a disservice to the very people it purports to represent.
November 17, 2011
[Director] Mark Herman knows how to milk the melodrama from every scene, but viewers may feel a little icky about the experience.
November 14, 2008
Young Scanlon and Butterfield are scathingly effective, never overplaying their roles.
July 14, 2011
A film dealing with the Holocaust really should be a little less clumsily executed, manipulative and contrived than this.
April 24, 2009
Much of the film depends on our ability to suspend disbelief and see the world as Bruno sees it. It has a finale designed to shock.
November 14, 2008
Because its gaze is so level and so unyielding, it stands as one of the better dramatic films made on this subject (although it's not nearly as fine as Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, in which the camps remain a distant abstraction).
April 24, 2009
This writer can't remember witnessing a harder-hitting kids' movie denouement than the one that closes this microcosm of middle-class German family life in WWII.
November 14, 2008
In truth, the film is sure to stop the hearts of many who see it. There may indeed be hope in hell, but better to avoid hell altogether.
