When he’s maltreated, he leaves, though occasionally his careless causes him trouble too, as when he participates in a pissing contest and the other farm boys realize he’s circumcised. He ends up knocking on every farm door in the hope of being taken in. Magda ( Elisabeth Duda), a kind farmer’s wife, finally takes him in and helps him transform into Jurek, a good Christian boy who ostentatiously wears his crucifix and loudly recites his prayers and whose greetings to strangers invariably invoke Jesus.Įventually, the SS come snooping around and Magda sends the boy on his way. After an almost careless-seeming summer hiding out in the forest with other Jewish kids with whom he goes on occasional food raids at nearby farms, Srulik finds himself alone in the depth of winter.

Gap-toothed Srulik (played by Andrzej and Kamil Tkacz) manages to leave the Warsaw ghetto unseen and is told by his father to hide but “never forget” he’s a Jew.

Jewish festivals and older audiences are natural fits for this proper - and properly academic - work, which will open commercially in Poland in January and in Germany in April. There’s nothing new or revelatory here, though the acting is good and the episodic Franco-German co-production’s $8.1 million budget is all up there on screen. Opening in 1942, the straightforwardly told tale follows Srulik, who’s rebaptized as Jurek so he can pass as a Polish boy orphaned by the war, as he escapes from Warsaw, lives in the forest with other Jewish kids until winter finally sets in and he has to travel from farm to farm, hoping to be taken in and fed by locals in exchange for handiwork. The film is so old-fashioned, it seems to suggest that the director’s mere nationality is so shocking that everything else had to be played as safe as possible. ROME – An intrepid 8-year-old Jewish kid from the Warsaw ghetto has to fend for himself during much of WWII in Run Boy Run (Lauf Junge Lauf), an adaptation of the bestselling children’s book by Israeli author Uri Orlev from German director Pepe Danquart.

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