![]() Based on the true story of a Jewish boy living in Poland during World War II. The extraordinary true story of a Polish boy and his solitary struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and keep alive his Jewish faith. I’d argue that it’s equally both and equally good at being both. Briefly, and while he is on the run, Srulik meets up with his father. It’s more the adventure of a kid in the middle of the Holocaust.” Still, the only significant false note is French composer Stephane Moucha’s intrusive orchestral score that telegraphs what emotion the audience is supposed to feel when such help isn’t needed.ĭirector Danquart told The Associated Press before the drama had its world premiere in Warsaw early this month that “Run Boy Run” is “not really a Holocaust movie. Twin brothers Andrzej and Kamil Tkacz portray Jurek with a naturalistic ease, helping viewers get fully invested, though the story (based on the children’s book by Uri Orlev) is rather conventionally plotted in an episodic fashion. (The SS often hot in pursuit of Jurek, they’re another matter.) One of the film’s stronger aspects is how even the meanest, most anti-Semitic Poles rarely seem dismissably evil as much as they do caught in a web bigger than themselves. In Jurek’s sad-eyed view, people are much the same way: sometimes kind and charitable and sometimes fearsome and cruel. The film is based on the true story of a 9-year-old who escaped the the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and survived (sometimes barely) until World War II’s end in the Polish woods and at remote farms, working for short stints for meals before departing for points unknown to avoid discovery.Īs seen through the eyes of the brave child who assumed the name Jurek Staniak and identified himself as a Catholic to help obscure his true identity, the film revels in the grandeur of Poland’s forests but also shows how that beauty turns harsh in the icy rain and snow of a Polish winter. 29 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Commanding the prestige opening night slot of the 14th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, German director Pepe Danquart's film screens at 7:30 p.m. "Run Boy Run," recounted completely from a child's perspective, is an affecting drama that immerses viewers anew. ![]() But a tragedy so large leaves unending room for interpretation. ![]() Bottom line: Conventionally plotted drama of Polish child's Holocaust odyssey is seriously moving.Īt this late date, you might think that the Holocaust has been detailed from every conceivable angle. ![]()
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