main character in the boy in the striped pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) The Holocaust drama relates the horror of a World War II Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two 8-year-old boys; Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of the camp's Nazi commandant, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish inmate. The film was criticised for what some felt is a distorted view of the Auschwitz experience.[citation needed]