Movie review The film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is based on a 2006 novel by John Boyne. The novel tells a fictional story shaped by real events of the Nazis' persecution and extermination of Jews in concentration camps across Europe. As for the film, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a 2008 British-Irish historical drama film directed by Mark Herman, produced by David Heyman and starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend and Amber Beattie. The film is an emotional experience that reveals the truth of the time through the innocent eyes of a boy. The film shows the life of an eight-year-old boy, Bruno, living a wealthy lifestyle in circa 1940 Berlin with his mother and older sister. and, above all, his father, a high-ranking SS officer, commandant of a concentration camp. The family is forced to move to the countryside when the father is promoted and put in charge of "something very important for the war". Bruno wasn't already too keen on moving, but he was convinced by his parents that he would be moving to a great place. From the window of his room, he sees a strange place that he calls a farm because of its appearance. Bruno asks his parents why farmers wear striped pajamas and they respond with an elusive answer that only pushes him to explore the truth himself. The place that Bruno calls a farm is actually a concentration camp set up for the mass extermination of the Jewish people or for forced labor. His father tells him that it is forbidden to go near them there too, "they are not really people", but that does not kill the curiosity in the child's mind. Although he is told to never explore the woods beyond his back garden, Bruno eventually ventures out. the......half of the sheet......done on arrival. If a child was not executed, he was often housed in the same barracks as the women. Furthermore, towards the end of the film Bruno easily sneaks into the camp with only the help of a shovel to help Schmuel find his father. Exactly, it would have been nearly impossible to sneak into such a heavily guarded camp, especially as a child. The concentration camps were strictly administered by SS units. They would guard the perimeter at all times and the camp was surrounded by dangerous electric barbed fences along with moats and a wall with guard towers. The film does not provide all the information needed to understand Germany during World War II. However, it offers a unique perspective on the Holocaust as it was shown through the eyes of an innocent little boy and reveals the essential ideals of the Holocaust..