The Optimist

Category: Movies •

Genre: Drama •

Rating: 0

Director: Finn Taylor,

Writer: Finn Taylor,

Cast: Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert, Luke David Blumm, Stephanie Heiner, Josh Schell, Jake Lucas,

Language: en

Country: USA

Release Date: March 11, 2026

Plot: 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.