White Bird
(2023)
★ 7.3 IMDb · 247 votes
Year: 2023
Runtime: 121 min
Country: United States of America
Director: Марк Форстер
Cast: Ариэлла Глейзер, Орландо Швердт, Брайс Гейзар, Джиллиан Андерсон, Хелен Миррен
Plot
After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.
In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie and Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère's heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend.