The Optimist (2026)

• Drama

Overview

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

Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Luke David Blumm, Robin Weigert, Leah Pipes, Ben Geurens, Ursula Parker, Slavko Sobin