The Optimist

Name: The Optimist
Cast: Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert, Luke David Blumm, Stephanie Heiner

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Finn TaylorProducers: Debi Memmolo, George Rush, Greg Taxin, Noah Lang

Stephen Lang

as Herbert Heller

Elsie Fisher

as Abbey

Robin Weigert

Luke David Blumm

as Young Herbert Heller

Stephanie Heiner

as Linda

Josh Schell

as Cop

Jake Lucas

as Centurion (uncredited)

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