[1][2] It was produced by the Children's Film Foundation It includes documentary footage of streets in the south side of Edinburgh in the early 1950s and of rural Perthshire.
He ends on Princes Street and sees a poster for trips to his homeland of Poland in a travel agent.
In the middle of the night they go to a remote cottage where an old man lets them sleep on his floor.
He shelters in ruined castle and the next day a group of children find him and take him to their special school in Perthshire.
The crooks also see the newspaper and head north to find Janek because they hid the brooch in his jacket.
The crooks join the cross country race and catch Janek in a church with one of the girls who has the brooch.
TV Guide gave the film three out of five stars, and wrote, "This well-paced film is particularly strong in its realistic depiction of children";[3] and Nothing But The Night wrote, "With its beautifully photographed images of Edinburgh’s Old Town and some utterly beguiling landscape shots of the main Highland settings which were filmed around Loch Earn, this is perhaps one of the CFF’s classiest looking titles, bolstered by fine art direction from Hammer’s Bernard Robinson and a lyrical orchestral score by Antony Hopkins.