The Optimist (2026)
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.
- Date of release
- 2026-03-11
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Finn Taylor
Casting
- Stephen Lang — Herbert Heller
- Elsie Fisher — Abbey
- Luke David Blumm — Young Herbert Heller
- Robin Weigert — Ruth
- Leah Pipes — Jane
- Ben Geurens — Gabe
- Ursula Parker — Sabrina
- Slavko Sobin — Herbert's Father
- Stella Stocker — Herbert's Mother
- Oskar Hes — Hein Heller
- Stephanie Heiner — Linda
- Josh Schell — Cop
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