The Optimist (2026)
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
Stephanie Heiner
Linda
Josh Schell
Cop
Jake Lucas
Centurion (uncredited)
