Run Boy Run (2013)

Original title

Lauf Junge lauf

Directed by

Pepe Danquart

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Germany, France, Poland

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

14

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 199 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An eight-year-old Jewish boy escapes the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. He must survive on his own in rural Nazi-occupied Poland for the next three years.

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What happens

Run Boy Run (German: Lauf Junge lauf; Polish: Biegnij, chłopcze, biegnij; French: Cours sans te retourner) also titled Escape From Warsaw in the UK is a 2013 German-Polish-French co-production of the film director and producer Pepe Danquart. The film is an adaptation of the 2000 novel Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev, based on the life of Yoram Fridman (1934–2017 (Rishon LeZion)), who as an eight-year-old Jewish boy in 1942, escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and survived, largely on his own, for the next three years in rural Nazi German-occupied Poland. The screenplay is by Heinrich Hadding and Pepe Danquart. The world premiere of the film took place on November 5, 2013, at the FilmFestival Cottbus in Germany. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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