Directed by:
Pepe DanquartScreenplay:
Heinrich HaddingCinematography:
Daniel GottschalkComposer:
Stéphane MouchaCast:
Andrzej Tkacz, Kamil Tkacz, Elisabeth Duda, Itay Tiran, Łukasz Gajdzis, Przemyslaw Sadowski, Jeanette Hain, Rainer Bock, Grazyna Szapolowska (more)Plots(1)
RUN BOY RUN is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek's resilience is put to the ultimate test when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith. As Jurek revisits his hometown and his abandoned home, we find out that the inner voice that has kept him hanging on over the years is in fact the echo of an earlier incident, a twist of fate that is as heartbreaking as it is encouraging and that will now help Jurek in making a choice between his true and his adopted identity. (official distributor synopsis)
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