Released in 2008, (Romanian: Băiatul în pijama vărgată ) is a haunting Holocaust drama directed by Mark Herman, based on the celebrated novel by John Boyne. The story follows Bruno , the eight-year-old son of a high-ranking Nazi officer, who is uprooted from his comfortable life in Berlin when his father is promoted to lead a concentration camp in occupied Poland. Naive and lonely in his new home, Bruno wanders to the camp’s edge and befriends Shmuel , a Jewish boy his age living behind a barbed-wire fence. No reviews The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)