The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is considered to be one of the most accurate yet painful movies based on the worst period of humanity in the last century, the Holocaust. It is inspired by John Boyne’s ...
To borrow a line from an Indy colleague, the first thing I thought at the start of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was, “Uh-oh, this is another Nazi movie.” However, the film’s unique perspective ...
(JTA) — A best-selling children’s novel that the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum has said “should be avoided by anyone who studies or teaches about the history of the Holocaust” is getting a sequel.
At one point in John Boyne’s new novel “All The Broken Places,” a 91-year-old German woman recalls, for the first time, her encounter with a young Jewish boy in the Auschwitz death camp 80 years prior ...
For a little, promising while, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” seems to be a welcome, if belated, response to “Life Is Beautiful.” Whereas Roberto Benigni‘s self-deifying exercise in Holocaust ...
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is the story of Bruno, an eight-year old German boy, (played by Asa Butterfield) whose father has just been promoted in the German army during World War II. Bruno's ...
Jack Scanlon, left, and Asa Butterfield strike up an unlikely friendship in 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.' Built upon a tragic but gimmicky end -- and an immensely powerful one, despite the ...
John Boyne, the author of the novel, which depicts the relationship between a young concentration camp prisoner and the son of a Nazi commander, recently announced a sequel entitled All the Broken ...
When Adrien Brody majestically played Chopin’s “Ballade No. 1” for Captain Wilm Hosenfeld in “The Pianist,” he revealed the simple kind of humanity that can be found amid historical chaos. It may be ...
(JTA) – At one point in John Boyne’s new novel “All The Broken Places,” a 91-year-old German woman recalls, for the first time, her encounter with a young Jewish boy in the Auschwitz death camp 80 ...
LITTLE ROCK — Writer-director Mark Herman's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a serious and well-made film that does the only moral thing a movie can do when it attempts to confront great evil - it ...