A 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.
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Kamil Tkacz
Srulik / Jurek
Elisabeth Duda
Magda Janczyk
Jeanette Hain
Mrs. Herman
Itay Tiran
Mosche
Katarzyna Bargiełowska
Riwa Fridman
Rainer Bock
SS Officer
Grażyna Szapołowska
Ewa Staniak
Andrzej Tkacz
Jurek Staniak
Łukasz Gajdzis
Pawel
Przemysław Sadowski
Grzegorz Kowalski
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