The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Berlin 1942 Eight-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution & the Holocaust He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country All he knows is that his father was promoted & he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do & no-one to play with Then he meets Shmuel a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence & who like the other people there wears a uniform of striped pajamas Bruno&s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation as their secret meetings result in a friendship that has startling & devastating consequences Synopsis Based upon the novel by John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a heart-wrenching tale of an unlikely friendship that forms between the son of a concentration camp commander & a young Jewish boy during World War II Directed by renowned British filmmaker Mark Hermon (Little Voice Brassed Off) the film features a cast that

Includes:: Vera Farmiga (The Departed Breaking & Entering) & David Thewlis (Mike Leigh&s Naked The Big Lebowski)