Lauf Junge Lauf

– Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, t..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 52 Minutes
Release Year:
2013
Lauf Junge lauf (2013)

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 on 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.

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Release Date:

10 Jan 2014

Language:

Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, German

MPAA Content-Rating:
NOT RATED

Director:

Pepe Danquart

Writer:

Heinrich Hadding (screenplay), Pepe Danquart (collaboration on screenplay), Uri Orlev (novel), Yoram Fridman (life story)

Main Actors:

Andrzej Tkacz, Kamil Tkacz, Elisabeth Duda, Itay Tiran

Plot:

Srulik, an eight-year-old boy, flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. He attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then as a Christian orphan named Jurek on a Polish farm. Throughout his ordeal, his Jewish identity is in danger of being lost. The story is based on the bestseller by Uri Orlev.

Awards:

3 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10