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Director: Mark Herman

Release Date: 12 September 2008

Tagline: A timeless story of innocence lost and humanity found.

Main Cast:

Asa Butterfield … Bruno

Jack Scanlon … Shmuel

David Thewlis … Father

Vera Farmiger … Mother

Set in wartime Germany, the story is seen through the eyes of a young boy whose father is a high ranking Nazi who has been promoted to a commander of a concentration camp. Forced to leave his grand home in Berlin and his friends, Bruno finds himself in a modest house in the middle of nowhere with no peers. From his bedroom window he can see what he thinks is a farm. It is, of course, the camp but he has no idea of the nature of his father’s work and his assumption is not corrected.

Forbidden to leave the front yard of the house, he becomes fascinated with what lies beyond, and curiosity soon gets the better of him. He stumbles upon the outskirts of the camp and meets Shmuel, a boy his own age sitting behind the fence.

I shall end the review here as this is a film that should be allowed to unravel at its own pace.

Simple yet so incredibly powerful, TBITSP will leave you silent as the credits roll.

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