The Optimist: The Bravest Act Is Truth
Avenue of the Giants
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.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Stephen Lang
Herbert Heller
Elsie Fisher
Abby
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Luke David Blumm
Young Herbert Heller
Robin Weigert
Ruth
Slavko Sobin
Herbert's Father
Stella Stocker
Herbert's Mother
Oskar Hes
Hein Heller
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Albie Brown
Mandolin Player
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Nicholas Bustamante
Luke
Nate Duncan
ER Doctor
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Robert Burger
Composer
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Jenny Scheinman
Composer
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Antonio Riestra
Cinematographer
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Alexander Surkala
Cinematographer
