The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Mark Herman
Vera Farmiga
Asa Butterfield
Jack Scanlon
Zsolt Safar Kovacs
Rupert Friend
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer whose promotion takes the family from their comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area where the lonely boy finds nothing to do and no-one to play with. Crushed by boredom and compelled by curiosity, Bruno ignores his mother's repeated instructions not to explore the back garden and heads for the 'farm' he has seen in the near distance. There he meets Shmuel, a boy his own age who lives a parallel, alien existence on the other side of a barbed wire fence. Bruno's encounter with the boy in the striped pajamas leads him from innocence to a dawning awareness of the adult world around them as his meetings with Shmuel develop into a friendship with devastating consequences.
Director
Mark Herman
Cast
Vera Farmiga
Asa Butterfield
Jack Scanlon
Zsolt Safar Kovacs
Rupert Friend
Henry Kingsmill
Laszlo Nadasi
Laszlo Quitt
Zac Mattoon O'brien
David Thewlis
Mihaly Szabados
Zsuzsa Holl
Gabor Harsay
Richard Johnson
David Hayman
Laszlo Aron
Bela Fesztbaum
Sheila Hancock
Jim Norton
Amber Beattie
Cara Horgan
Domonkos Németh
Ivan Verebely
Attila Egyed
Charlie Baker
Crew
Louie Alexander
Rosie Alison
Simon Allmark
Erno Bacsics
Zoltan Bai
Gyorgy Bajczar
Zsolt Bajczar
Eva Bajusz
Ben Baker
Vanessa Baker
Alex Balogh
Gabor Balogh
Gyula Balogh
Richard Balogh
Celia Bannerman
Adrian Banton
Libbie Barr
Daisy Beattie
Susan Beattie
Mark Bedo
Dick Bernstein
Jacqueline Bhavnani
Jacqueline Bhavnani
Samantha Helen Black
Turea Blyth
Imre Bodo
Istvan Bodor
Mark Bogan
Sandor Bognar
Bob Bornstein
Edit Boroznaki
Pal Boroznaki
Monika Bota
John Boyne
Andras Bozsar
Dani Bozsik
Kristóf Brabanti
Liza Bracey
Barna Brill
Peter Brill
Peter Burgis
Istvan Busa
Zsolt Buti
Sam Butterfield
John Casali
Martin Childs
Eddy Christiani
Joyce Cochrane
Hans Conzelmann
Sean Cooney
Istvan Csehi
Gergely Csepregi
Mark Csutar
Harry Parr Davies
Leo Davis
Sandy De Crescent
Benoît Delhomme
Sandor Denes
Andie Derrick
Bela Devenyi
Renata Devenyi
Bálint Diószegi
Brendan Donnison
Miles Drake
Richard Dunford
Zoltan Dzsupin
Mark Elliot
Michael Ellis
Michael Ellis
Monika Estzan
Feri Farkas
Jake Farr
Agnes Forgacs
Mercedesz Forrai
Olivia Fridez
Viktor Fulop
Karoly Gaal
Bela Gajdos
Joe Gallagher
Peter Gantner
Tibor Gazdig
Adam Glasman
Rodney Glenn
Heidi Gower
Gavin Gregory
Marton Gregus
Andras Gruz
Zsuzsa Gurban
István Gyura
Dille Haensch
Hildegard Haide
Pippa Hall
Krisztian Haraszti
Tarn Harper
Martin Harrison
Csaba Harsanyi
Jim Henrikson
Mark Herman
Mark Herman
David Heyman
Jan Hogevold
James Horner
Agota Horvath
Attila Horvath
Sandor Horvath
Gabor Hutter
Paul Hyman
Gábor Inczédy
Marton Ivanov
Edwina Jamieson
Vera Janisch
David Johnston
Janos Jovan
Barbara Kaltner
Adrienn Kamaras
Eniko Karadi
Ferenc Kardos
Gabriella Kardos
Andras Kassai
Tibor Kecskemeti
Mandy Kingsmill
Dani Kiraly
Istvan Kiraly
Gabor Kiss
Martin Palyi Kiss
Gyorgy Kives
Attila Kohari
Zsuzsanna Kohegyi
Csilla Korang
Géza Kotán
Balazs Kovacs
Balazs Kovacs
Balazs Kovacs
Istvan Kovacs
Kinga Kovacs
Gyula Krasnyanszky
Gyorgy Kristof
Gyorgy Kuntner
Marianne Kuzman
Serena Lam
Christine Langan
Marese Langan
Marese Langan
Tracey Leadbetter
Andy Long
Levente Lorincz
Bernadett Lovey
Tibor Lucza
David Lukacs
Marcell Magyar
Laszlo Major
Sandor Major
Hajnalka Makk
Martin Marrison
Aaron Martin
Jerome Mccann
Rod Mclean
Peter Mendel
Mark Milsome
Sharon Milton
Peter Miskolczi
Peter Miskolczi
Effandi Bin Mohamed
Laszlo Mohovics
Valeria Molnar
Alan Moorhouse
Julian Murray
Anikó Nagy
Gabor Nagy
Lajos Nagy
Sandor Nagy
Tamas Nagy
Laszlo Nemeth
Stuart Nippard
Tibor Nyari
Jozsef Nyiri
Mihaly Nyiri
Ferenc Ormos
Imre Orosz
David Packard
Peter Palotas
Zoltan Pamuk
Nick Papanikolaou
Mark Paterson
Pal Perlaki
Istvan Pocsai
Justin D Pollard
Stephanie Pollard
Martin F Polyak
Frans Poptie
Gábor Posevitz
Mark Preston
Erzsebet Racz
Sandor Rad
Alistair Rae
Gyorgy Rajna
Radu Razvan
György Reder
Adrian Rhodes
Simon Rhodes
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Co-winner of the Audience Award at the 2008 Chicago International Film Festival.
Released in United States Fall November 7, 2008
Released in United States September 2008
Released in United States October 2008
Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival (Official Selection) September 18-27, 2008.
Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Gala Presentations) October 16-29, 2008.
Based on John Boyne's novel, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", published by David Fickling Books September 12, 2006.
Released in United States Fall November 7, 2008
Released in United States September 2008 (Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival (Official Selection) September 18-27, 2008.)
Released in United States October 2008 (Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Gala Presentations) October 16-29, 2008.)