Europa Europa
by Agnieszka Holland
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Actor: Julie Delpy, Marco Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski, Ren? Hofschneider, Solomon PerelDirector: Agnieszka Holland
Writer: Solomon Perel
Writer: Agnieszka Holland
Producer: Artur Brauner
Producer: Christina Undritz
Producer: Janusz Morgenstern
Producer: Lew Rywin
Writer: Paul Hengge
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: A Boy In Search Of Himself
Summary: 5 Stars
If it were not for the fact that the real Solomon Perel appears towards the end of Europa Europa, I would be tempted to believe this film was fiction. It seems too unlikely that a Jewish boy could survive World War II, first as a good Soviet, then as a good Nazi, without being discovered. But apparently it happened, and this film does an excellent job of depicting the extraordinary story.
Solomon Perel was on the eve of his bar mitzvah when his world was shattered. A pogrom in his German hometown in the late 1930s killed his sister and forced his family to flee to Poland. There they were once more endangered when Germany invaded Poland in September, 1939. Solomon is separated from his family, ends up in a Soviet orphanage where he becomes a good Marxist, then through a series of bizarre twists and turns he becomes a hero of the Third Reich and is sent to an elite Hitler Youth school where he's praised as an excellent example of Aryan superiority.
Now as a Jewish male Solomon has a major problem keeping the physical evidence of his religion hidden from those who are sworn to exterminate him. He manages it through a series of coincidences and evasions that are blackly humorous. Eventually his sense of who he and his family truly are returns, and he begins the long process of re-identifying himself.
The film is beautifully presented and manages to give a fuller sense of the horror of the Holocaust much better than many more graphic depictions.
Summary of Europa Europa
This "incredible, true story" (Los Angeles Times) is at once "eye-opening, harrowing and humorous" (Leonard Maltin) as it recounts the severe actions a young boy must take in order to survive the Holocaust. Based on the autobiography of Solomon Perel, a young German Jew, the film "bounds from one jaw-dropping episode to the next" (The New Yorker) and puts you in the middle of war-torn Europe where ingenuity, timing and luck are the key to survival. Separated from his family at the age of thirteen, Solly (Marco Hofschneider) takes on various identities to hide his Jewishheritage. First passing himself off as an orphan and later as one of the "Hitler Youth," Solly carries on his charade, hoping desperately to keep his identity hidden and make it through the war alive.This wonderful film by Polish director Agnieszka Holland (Total Eclipse), based on an autobiography by Solomon Perel, concerns a Jewish-German boy who manages to conceal his identity from the Nazis and ends up a member of their Youth Party. An admirably full experience, the film is both black comedy and horror show, with the central character taking the full measure of everyone's perspective on the war and Nazi crimes. --Tom Keogh
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