The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

The trailer is charming, about an adorable 8 year old German boy (Asa Butterfield) who happened to find someone his own age on the other side of a barbed wire fence which enclosed a concentration camp in World War II. It's a holocaust movie that got sadder and sadder and has been haunting me for days. I haven't read the book (fiction by Irishman John Boyne, who spelled it "pyjamas," as did the publishers and film distributors across the pond) but did some research on it. The family moved from Berlin to "Out-With" (Auschwitz) on orders of the father's boss, "The Fury," (the Führer). Both David Thewlis (Remus Lupin in the once and future Harry Potter movies) as the father and Vera Farmiga (The Departed (2006)) as the mother won British Independent Film Awards earlier tonight. Rupert Friend, who played the handsome Lieutenant Kotler, was also the generous young man in Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005). Definitely worth seeing but do something afterwards that will bring your spirits back up.