The action takes place in Berlin, in Nazi Germany in the time of the Holocaust. Bruno,9-year-old boy, his father, his mother Elsa, and his 12-year-old sister Gretel
relocate. Bruno hates his new home as there is nobody to play with and
very little to explore.
Bruno one day sneaks off beyond the back garden. He arrives at an electric, barbed wire fence surrounding a camp and sees a boy his own age named Shmuel, who lives inside and who asks for food. During their conversation, Bruno is thinking that the striped uniforms that Shmuel, and the other prisoners all wear are "pajamas". Bruno starts meeting Shmuel regularly, sneaking him food and playing board games with him. Bruno eventually learns that Shmuel is a Jew and that he was brought to the camp along with his father.
One day, Elsa (Bruno's mother) discovers that the source of the black smoke coming from the camp's
chimneys is the burning corpses of Jews. Elsa confronts and argues with
Ralf and is disgusted and heartbroken.
Later that day Bruno sees Shmuel has been ordered to the house to clean glasses because of his small fingers. Bruno offers him some cake, and they start talking. Kotler (the maid) appears, sees Shmuel chewing, and accuses him of stealing. Shmuel says Bruno offered him the cake, but fearful of Kotler, Bruno denies this. Kotler orders Shmuel to finish cleaning the glasses and says they will then have a "little chat about what happens to rats who steal". Bruno goes to his room distraught and decides to apologize to Shmuel, but Shmuel has gone. Every day Bruno returns to the same spot by the camp but does not see Shmuel. Shmuel reappears behind the fence, sporting a black eye. Despite Bruno's betrayal, Shmuel forgives him and renews his friendship.
Shmuel has
problems of his own; his father has gone missing after those with whom
he participated in a march did not return to the camp. Bruno decides to help Shmuel find his father. The next day Bruno, arrives back at the camp, takes a
striped prisoners' outfit and a cap to cover his unshaven hair, and digs
under the fence to join Shmuel in a search for Shmuel's father.
Bruno
soon discovers the true nature of the camp after seeing many sick and
weak-looking Jews. While searching the boys are taken on
a march with other inmates.
At the house, Bruno being gone is noticed. After Gretel and Elsa
discover the open window Bruno went through and the remains of a
sandwich Bruno was taking for Shmuel, Elsa bursts into Ralf's meeting to
alert him that Bruno is missing. Ralf and his men mount a search to
find him. They find the boy's discarded clothing outside the fence and
the hole he dug, and enter the camp, searching for him. In the mean
time, Bruno, Shmuel and the other inmates on the march are stopped
inside a changing room and are told to remove their clothes for a
"shower".
They are packed into a gas chamber, where Bruno and Shmuel
hold each other's hands.
Ralf, still with his men, arrives at an empty
dormitory, signalling to him that a gassing is taking place. Ralf cries
out his son's name, and Elsa and Gretel fall to their knees, after
discovering Bruno's discarded clothes outside the gate.
The film ends by
showing the closed door of the now-silent gas chamber and the
prisoners' discarded clothing outside it indicating that the prisoners,
Shmuel and Bruno are dead.
Bruno one day sneaks off beyond the back garden. He arrives at an electric, barbed wire fence surrounding a camp and sees a boy his own age named Shmuel, who lives inside and who asks for food. During their conversation, Bruno is thinking that the striped uniforms that Shmuel, and the other prisoners all wear are "pajamas". Bruno starts meeting Shmuel regularly, sneaking him food and playing board games with him. Bruno eventually learns that Shmuel is a Jew and that he was brought to the camp along with his father.
Later that day Bruno sees Shmuel has been ordered to the house to clean glasses because of his small fingers. Bruno offers him some cake, and they start talking. Kotler (the maid) appears, sees Shmuel chewing, and accuses him of stealing. Shmuel says Bruno offered him the cake, but fearful of Kotler, Bruno denies this. Kotler orders Shmuel to finish cleaning the glasses and says they will then have a "little chat about what happens to rats who steal". Bruno goes to his room distraught and decides to apologize to Shmuel, but Shmuel has gone. Every day Bruno returns to the same spot by the camp but does not see Shmuel. Shmuel reappears behind the fence, sporting a black eye. Despite Bruno's betrayal, Shmuel forgives him and renews his friendship.
Bruno
soon discovers the true nature of the camp after seeing many sick and
weak-looking Jews. While searching the boys are taken on
a march with other inmates.They are packed into a gas chamber, where Bruno and Shmuel
hold each other's hands. 
Very impressive; do you recommend it for watching? You have included just the synopsis, how about your comments on a most powerful scene in the movie, the themes touched upon, the ideas promoted by the authors. You convinced me to watch.
ОтветитьУдалитьVery impressive; do you recommend it for watching? You have included just the synopsis, how about your comments on a most powerful scene in the movie, the themes touched upon, the ideas promoted by the authors. You convinced me to watch.
ОтветитьУдалитьYes I think everybody must watch this film because we must remember our past and don't forget it. This film contains the lesson for each person, the lesson that everything in our life retorns to us, every did or every word.
ОтветитьУдалитьFor me the most powerful scene was the final scene when mother was running in the forest to her child. In this time children in the gazecamera were holding their hands. They didn't know what happened. They are scared. And then mother fall into her knees crying and screaming when she saw the black smoke above the gazecameras.
I was crying because children and all people in cameras they did nothing bad, but they died with such awfull deth. They were innocent, but they were suffering.