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The Optimist (2026)

Directed by Finn Taylor

Overview

For more than sixty years, children’s store owner and Holocaust survivor Herbert Heller lived with the weight of the horrors he endured as a 15-year-old imprisoned in Terezin and Auschwitz. As illness forces him to confront the silence he kept—even from his own family—he forms a surprising friendship with Abbey, a teenager navigating her own emotional fractures. Through their growing connection, Herbert is inspired to finally share his truth, opening a path toward empathy, forgiveness, and renewal.

Actors

Stephen Lang | Elsie Fisher | Luke David Blumm | Leah Pipes | Ben Geurens | Ursula Parker | Slavko Šobin | Stella Stocker | Oskar Hes | Robin Weigert