Run Boy Run (film)

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^[1] 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.

Run Boy Run
Film poster
German	Lauf Junge lauf
Directed by	Pepe Danquart
Written by	Heinrich Hadding Pepe Danquart
Based on	Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev
Produced by	Uwe Spiller
Starring	Andrzej Tkacz Kamil Tkacz Zbigniew Zamachowski
Cinematography	Daniel Gottschalk
Edited by	Richard Marizy
Music by	Stéphane Moucha
Release date	November 5, 2013 (2013-11-05) (Cottbus Film Festival)
Running time	107 minutes
Countries	Germany France Poland
Languages	German Polish Yiddish Russian

The screenplay by Heinrich Hadding and Pepe Danquart.^[2] The world premiere of the film took place on November 5, 2013, at the FilmFestival^[3] 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 as Ewa Staniak
• Przemysław Sadowski as Kowalski
• Olgierd Łukaszewicz as Doctor Żurawski
• Izabela Kuna as Kowalska
• Elisabeth Duda as Magda Janczyk
• Jeanette Hain 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