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Run Boy Run

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013

ORIGINAL TITLE: Lauf Junge Lauf

GENRE: Drama

RUN TIME: 112 min

CAST: Andrzej Tkacz, Kamil Tkacz, Jeanette Hain, Rainer Bock, Itay Tiran, Katarzyna Bargielowska, Elisabeth Duda

DIRECTED BY: Pepe Danquart

SCRIPT: Heinrich Hadding, Pepe Danquart (collaboration on screenplay), Uri Orlev (novel)

PRODUCERS: Susa Kusche, Uwe Spiller, Pepe Danquart, Alexander van Dülmen (co-producer)

LANGUAGES: Polish, German, Yiddish, Hebrew

GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR: NFP Marketing & Distribution

POLISH DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Åšwiat

RIGHTS: EE, CIS

SALES: A Company

The German Film Evaluation Authority’s (FBW) assessment of the film:
“especially worthwhile”

During the winter of 1942 nine-year-old Srulik escapes from the Warsaw Ghetto of occupied Poland and wanders through the snow-covered, freezing cold woodlands. Hunger and the cold drive him back towards the villages, where he begs for food in the guise of Jurek, a Catholic orphan. Some people, such as a mother whose husband and son have left for the woods to join the resistance, help him whilst others denounce him to the authorities as a Jew in order to pocket the reward money. Time and again Jurek is forced to run for his life, hunted by the SS, German soldiers and Polish anti-Semites. Academy Award winner Pepe Danquart’s film adaptation of Uri Orlev’s eponymous novel tells the true story of Yoram Friedman.

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