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The Optimist

The Optimist

Finn Taylor

2026

  • Drama
6.8

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

  • Finn TaylorDirector
  • Stephen LangHerbert Heller
  • Elsie FisherAbbey
  • Luke David BlummYoung Herbert Heller
  • Robin WeigertRuth
  • Leah PipesJane
  • Ben GeurensGabe
  • Ursula ParkerSabrina
  • Slavko SobinHerbert's Father

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