The Optimist

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.

Cast & Crew

Director

Finn Taylor

Stephen Lang

Herbert Heller

Elsie Fisher

Abbey

Luke David Blumm

Young Herbert Heller

Robin Weigert

Ruth

Leah Pipes

Jane

Ben Geurens

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