''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 Pepe is a pet form of the Spanish name José (Josep). It is also a surname. * People Mononyms *Pepe (footballer, born 1935), real name José Macia, Brazilian footballer *Pepe (footballer, born 1983), real name Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, ...

. The film is an adaptation of the 2000 novel ''Run, Boy, Run'' by Uri Orlev, based on the life of Yoram Fridman, who as an eight-year-old Jewish boy in 1942, escaped the

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the N ...

and survived, largely on his own, for the next three years in rural Nazi German-occupied Poland. The screenplay by Heinrich Hadding and Pepe Danquart. The world premiere of the film took place on November 5, 2013, at the FilmFestival Cottbus in Germany.

Cast

*Andrzej Tkacz as Srulik Frydman / Jurek Staniak * Kamil Tkacz as Srulik Frydman / Jurek Staniak * Zbigniew Zamachowski as Hersch Frydman, Father of Srulik * Mirosław Baka as Mateusz Wróbel *

Grażyna Szapołowska Grażyna Szapołowska (; born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress. Life and career She was born in Bydgoszcz. The father was of Latvian-Polish descent, and mother, Wanda, was Lithuanian-Polish descent. She has a sister, Lidia, ...

as Ewa Staniak * Przemysław Sadowski as Kowalski * Olgierd Łukaszewicz as Doctor Żurawski * Izabela Kuna as Kowalska * Elisabeth Duda as Magda Janczyk *

Jeanette Hain Jeanette Hain (born 18 February 1969, Munich) is a German film actress. She appeared in more than 90 film and television productions since 1990. Hein is perhaps best-known to international audiences as Ralph Fiennes' girlfriend in the Academy ...

as Mrs Herman * Rainer Bock as SS Officer * Itay Tiran as Mosze * Katarzyna Bargiełowska as Riwa Fridman, mother of Srulik * Urs Rechn as SS Scharführer *Julia Stachowicz as Sofia * Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska as Mania Wróbel * Lech Dyblik as Fisherman

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 1608516
The boy who ran for three years to escape the Holocaust - Arts & Culture - Jerusalem Post

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