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.