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The Optimist

Name: The Optimist
Genre: Drama
Released: 2026-03-11
Duration: 102 min
Cast: Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert, Luke David Blumm, Leah Pipes

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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.

Director: Finn Taylor
Writers: Finn Taylor
Language: English
Country: Czech Republic, United States of America
Release date: 11 March 2026

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