Run Boy Run (film)

Run Boy Run
Film poster
GermanLauf Junge lauf
Directed byPepe Danquart
Written byHeinrich Hadding
Pepe Danquart
Based onRun, Boy, Run
by Uri Orlev
Produced byUwe Spiller
Starring
CinematographyDaniel Gottschalk
Edited byRichard Marizy
Music byStéphane Moucha
Release date
  • November 5, 2013 (2013-11-05) (Cottbus Film Festival)
Running time
107 minutes
Countries
  • Germany
  • France
  • Poland
LanguagesGerman
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.

  1. ^ "Lauf Junge lauf" – via www.imdb.com.
  2. ^ "home - Pepe Danquart". www.danquart.de.
  3. ^ "Home - FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival des osteuropäischen Films". www.filmfestivalcottbus.de.