The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas in cinemas soon

Adapted from John Boyne's best-selling novel, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas is a fictional story told through the eves of an eight year old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II.

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THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS features an impressive cast including David Thewlis (Harry Potter, Naked), Vera Farmiga (The Departed, Breaking and Entering) and Rupert Friend (The Libertine, Pride and Prejudice), and introduces Asa Butterfield as Bruno and Jack Scalon as Shmuel. The film is produced by David Heyman (Harry Potter) and adapted for the screen and directed by Mark Herman (Little Voice, Brassed Off).

Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer whose promotion takes the family from their comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area where the lonely boy finds nothing to do and no-one to play with. Crushed by boredom and compelled by curiosity, Bruno ignores his mother’s repeated instructions not to explore the back garden and heads for the ‘farm’ he has seen in the near distance. There he meets Shmuel, a boy his own age who lives a parallel, alien existence on the other side of a barbed wire fence. Bruno's encounter with the boy in the striped pyjamas leads him from innocence to a dawning awareness of the adult world around them as his meetings with Shmuel develop into a friendship with devastating consequences.

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas will be released in UK cinemas on 12th September 2008.