Synopsis
While the anti-Semitic poison of the Third Reich spread through much of Europe as Nazi forces took hold during World War II, there were a few pockets of resistance, and one of the most remarkable (and least-known) stories concerns the people of Bulgaria, one of the only Nazi-occupied countries where the majority of the Jewish population lived to see the end of the war. The Optimists is a documentary that explains how 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were saved from the Nazi death camps by underground resistance...more