The Optimist: The Bravest Act Is Truth (2023)
Avenue of the Giants
102 min
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.
- Release date
- October 6, 2023
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Stephen Lang as Herbert Heller
- Elsie Fisher as Abby
- Luke David Blumm as Young Herbert Heller
- Robin Weigert as Ruth
- Slavko Sobin as Herbert's Father
- Stella Stocker as Herbert's Mother
- Oskar Hes as Hein Heller
- Albie Brown as Mandolin Player
- Nicholas Bustamante as Luke
- Nate Duncan as ER Doctor
Crew
- Finn Taylor · Director
- Finn Taylor · Writer
- Noah Lang · Producer
- Dean Lyras · Producer
- George Rush · Producer
- Todd Slater · Producer
- Robert Burger · Composer
- Jenny Scheinman · Composer
- Antonio Riestra · Cinematographer
- Alexander Šurkala · Cinematographer
- Rick LeCompte · Editor
- Kaufmanová Olina · Editor
- Sig De Miguel · Casting director
- Nina Henninger · Casting director
- Sarah Kliban · Casting director
- Maya Kvetny · Casting director
- Michael E. Goldman · Production designer
- Martin Vackár · Production designer