Disappointing compared to the book . The English accents for a German family completely disengaged me.

Rating: 4/10 (20 November 2008)

Read the book by John Boyne and loved it. Movie was very disappointing from the start. The movie was about a German family and the actors were the British upper class - with Oxford accents! John Boyne how could you have allowed that to happen? The same with the Pavel and Schmul - both had British accents. The two young actors should have switched roles - Schmul looked a very healthy concentration camp victim - while Bruno was the scrawny one. The innocence and naivetÃ© of the characters in the book was totally destroyed. Bruno's unshaven head in the camp lost meaning Too slow - missed the nuance of the book - failed to really build the two characters of Bruno and Schmul.