Plot Summary - POSSIBLE SPOILERS IN THIS: About the friendship between two eight year old German boys at the time of the Holocaust - one the son of a Nazi soldier, the other a Jewish prisoner in a concentration camp. When young Bruno's family moves from Berlin to the country when his Nazi father is promoted into a new job, Bruno doesn't know what it's all about. Bruno is forbidden to leave the walled gardens around his house, but seeing a nearby "farm" with children from his bedroom window, he sneaks out one day hoping to meet someone to play with there. Approaching the barbed wire fence, Bruno meets Shmuel, a boy his age and wearing the prisoner uniform Bruno thinks of as a pair of "striped pajamas". Bruno has no clue that the farm is a concentration camp - his mom knows, but isn't aware of the full extent of what is going on at this death camp, only the dad is in full awareness of it all. Bruno continues his friendship with Shmuel as they meet at the barbed wire fence each day. I won't go into any more, so as to not spoil the film for anyone.
Review - POSSIBLE SPOILERS: One of the saddest films I've ever seen - this one will be hard to forget. The fact that all the actors are British perhaps, at first, makes it hard to think of these as Germans - but I quickly got into the idea and soon forgot the accents. The actors (Asa Butterfield as Bruno and Jack Scanlon as Shmuel) who play the two boys are both so good - little Shmuel is particularly memorable. All the acting in this is top-notch, and a haunting score by James Horner enhances the film. Rating - 10/10 stars
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