Number 8 Community Arts Centre

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (12A)

Friday 23^rd January - 7.30pm

Monday 26^th January - 10.30am & 7.30pm

Tuesday 27^th January - 7.30pm

Thursday 29^th January - 7.30pm

Directed by Mark Herman

Based on John Boyne's novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas focuses on the friendship that springs up between an eight year old German boy, Bruno, and a Jewish boy of the same age, Shmuel.  Bruno is unaware that Shmuel is an inmate of a concentration camp, known only to him as a ‘farm'.  He is also oblivious to the fact that his father, ‘a good soldier and decent man', is actually the man who runs the camp.  Slowly the illusions that hold the family together crumble as the truth seeps into their home and lives.  Despite the difficult setting of this film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is not bleak or sentimental, "it's an unusual and brave piece of family entertainment, and one worth seeing." - Cosmo Landesman, The Sunday Times

Jane's Choice (Bar Manager)

Running Time: 94mins