Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pajamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination.
This has got to be one of the best movies I've ever seen. For me, this was not only an exceptional film involving the Holocaust and World War II, but an incredibly moving and emotional tale of a friendship that developed that knew no prejudice or intolerance. Those involved in the the creation and operation of concentration camps often had housing for themselves and their family close by. How haunting to have your family living in close proximity to where so much torture and death was being c...