Greene’s Film Podcast: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Students at Greene’s College Oxford take a look at the 2008 movie, The Boy in Striped Pyjamas – Konstantin’s pick. It is a historical drama film written and directed by Mark Herman based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne.

Set sometime between 1939 and 1945, the plot follows Bruno, an eight-year old German boy played by a young Asa Butterfield, whose life is uprooted when he moves to rural Poland when his father, an SS officer is promoted. After noticing a concentration camp from his bedroom window, which he mistakenly believes to be a farm, he befriends one of its occupants, Shmuel, another eight-year-old boy played by Jack Scanlon. As their friendship develops, the lives of the young boys and their families is set down a dark path.