📽️ Cinema as Memory: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas as Part of the "80 Days – 80 Events for the 80th Anniversary of the Great Victory" Campaign

At the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Forensics of Al-Farabi KazNU, the large-scale campaign "80 Days – 80 Events for the 80th Anniversary of the Great Victory" continues. As part of this campaign, students and professors watched the profound and emotional film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which portrays the tragedy of war through the eyes of children.

📖 About the Film:

This is an adaptation of John Boyne’s novel of the same name. The story unfolds through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy, Bruno, the son of a Nazi concentration camp commander. While exploring the surroundings, he meets a Jewish boy, Shmuel, who lives behind the barbed wire, dressed in what he perceives as "striped pajamas." Their innocent friendship, built on naivety and a lack of understanding of the horrors around them, leads to tragic consequences.

💬 Key discussion points after the screening:
🔹 How easily can a person become part of an inhumane system without even realizing it?
🔹 Why is remembering the victims of war crucial for future generations?
🔹 What can lawyers, historians, and society as a whole do to prevent such tragedies from happening again?

This film serves as a reminder that war spares no one and that the right to life and justice must remain inviolable values.

✨ Such events not only help preserve the memory of past events but also instill in future lawyers and human rights defenders a deep understanding of the importance of humanism and justice.