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The Optimist

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The Optimist — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • March 11, 2026
  • Runtime
  • 102 min
  • Genres
  • Drama
  • Director
  • Finn Taylor

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The Optimist — Cast

Stephen Lang photo Stephen Lang Herbert Heller Elsie Fisher photo Elsie Fisher Abbey Luke David Blumm photo Luke David Blumm Young Herbert Heller Robin Weigert photo Robin Weigert Ruth Leah Pipes photo Leah Pipes Jane Ben Geurens photo Ben Geurens Gabe Ursula Parker photo Ursula Parker Sabrina Slavko Sobin photo Slavko Sobin Herbert's Father

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