![]() ![]() Bruno visits Shmuel before he leaves, and learns Shmuel's father has disappeared after being transferred to a different work gang Bruno decides to help Shmuel find him. In turn, Ralf then tells Bruno and Gretel their mother is taking them to live with extended family until the war is over. At the funeral, Elsa tries to remove a wreath from the Führer out of respect for Nathalie and her beliefs, but Ralf stops her, causing them to fall out after the service.īack home, Elsa informs Ralf she doesn't want the children living in the vicinity of the camp. In Berlin, Ralf's mother Nathalie – who disapproves of the Nazi regime – is killed by an Allied bombing raid. Bruno apologises and Shmuel forgives him. Bruno continues returning to the fence and eventually, Shmuel reappears, but with visible injuries. Ralf informs his family that Kurt was transferred to the Eastern Front angered, Elsa reveals the reason for his transfer was because Kurt did not initially alert the authorities about his father. Bruno clandestinely sees his father and other soldiers reviewing a propaganda film about the camp's conditions as positive. Bruno tries to apologise to Shmuel later, but he doesn't reappear at the fence for several days. After seeing him eating, Shmuel informs Kurt that Bruno offered the cake, which Bruno fearfully denies. Kurt finds Bruno and Shmuel socialising and berates Shmuel. Bruno sees Shmuel working in his home, and offers him cake. Later that night, Kurt reveals his father left Germany for Switzerland to avoid national service and is berated by Ralf embarrassed, Kurt viciously beats Pavel for spilling a glass of wine. Bruno meets Shmuel regularly, sneaking him food, and learns that Shmuel is a Jew who was brought to the camp with his parents.Įlsa inadvertently discovers from Kurt that the smell from the camp is in fact burning prisoners she angrily confronts her husband. Both boys are completely unaware of the true insidiously horrific nature of the camp: Bruno believes the striped uniforms that Shmuel, Pavel, and the other prisoners wear are pyjamas, while Shmuel believes he is only there temporarily and that his grandparents died from an illness on the journey to the camp. He befriends Shmuel, another eight-year-old boy. ![]() Bruno struggles to adjust to the rhetoric in the teaching after Pavel, a doctor-turned-family slave, comes to Bruno's aid after he sustains a minor injury.īruno sneaks into the woods, arriving at a barbed wire fence surrounding the camp. This combined with Gretel's crush on Lieutenant Kurt Kotler, a young colleague of her father's, makes Gretel fanatical in her support for the Nazi agenda. Ralf organises Herr Liszt, a private tutor, to teach Nazi propaganda and antisemitism to indoctrinate Bruno and his sister, Gretel. Bruno notices an extermination camp near the back garden from his bedroom window, but believes it to be a farm his mother Elsa forbids him from going in the back garden. It received generally positive reviews from critics for being touching but was panned by scholars for misrepresenting elements of the Holocaust.īruno, an eight-year-old German boy living in Berlin, is uprooted to rural occupied Poland with his family after his father Ralf, an SS officer, is promoted. It was released in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2008. Set in Nazi-occupied Poland, the film follows the son of an SS officer who befriends a Holocaust prisoner of his age. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (released as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in North America) is a 2008 historical drama film written and directed by Mark Herman. ![]()
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