Run Boy Run | |
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Director: | Pepe Danquart |
Producer: | Uwe Spiller |
Music: | Stéphane Moucha |
Cinematography: | Daniel Gottschalk |
Editing: | Richard Marizy |
Runtime: | 107 minutes |
Language: | German Polish Yiddish Russian |
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, 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.
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.