The Optimist

Overview

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.

Cast

Stephen Lang

Herbert Heller

Elsie Fisher

Abbey

Robin Weigert

N/A

Luke David Blumm

Young Herbert Heller

Stephanie Heiner

Linda

Josh Schell

Cop

Jake Lucas

Centurion (uncredited)