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The Optimist

The Optimist

7.3 (3) ·2026 ·102 min ·Movie
Drama

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.

Top Cast

Stephen Lang
Stephen Lang
Herbert Heller
Elsie Fisher
Elsie Fisher
Abbey
Robin Weigert
Robin Weigert
Luke David Blumm
Young Herbert Heller
Stephanie Heiner
Stephanie Heiner
Linda
Josh Schell
Josh Schell
Cop
Jake Lucas
Jake Lucas
Centurion (uncredited)

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