Mar 11, 2026
102 min
Full-HD

The Optimist (2026)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Czech Republic United States of America

Companies

Stillking Films Convoke Media Witchcraft Motion Picture Company

Stephen Lang

Herbert Heller

Elsie Fisher

Abbey

Robin Weigert

Luke David Blumm

Young Herbert Heller

Stephanie Heiner

Linda

Josh Schell

Cop

Jake Lucas

Centurion (uncredited)

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