Europa Europa

Europa Europa

K14

Genre

Drama, War

Director

Agnieszka Holland

Run time

1h 52min

Cast

Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, André Wilms

This drama was based on the true story of a young German Jew who survived the Holocaust by falling in with the Nazis. Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider) is the son of a Jewish shoe salesman coming of age in Germany during the rise of Adolph Hitler. In 1938, a group of Nazis attack Solomon’s family home; his sister is killed, and 13-year-old Solomon flees to Poland. Solomon winds up in an orphanage operated by Stalinist forces; when German forces storm Poland, Solomon’s fluent German allows him to join the Nazis as a translator, posing as Josef Peters, an ethnic German. In time, “Peters” is made a member of the elite Hitler Youth, but since Solomon is circumcised, he can be easily revealed as a Jew, and he lives in constant fear that his secret will be discovered.

Germany / France / Poland 1990

Genre

Drama, War

Director

Agnieszka Holland

Run time

1h 52min

Cast

Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, André Wilms

This drama was based on the true story of a young German Jew who survived the Holocaust by falling in with the Nazis. Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider) is the son of a Jewish shoe salesman coming of age in Germany during the rise of Adolph Hitler. In 1938, a group of Nazis attack Solomon’s family home; his sister is killed, and 13-year-old Solomon flees to Poland. Solomon winds up in an orphanage operated by Stalinist forces; when German forces storm Poland, Solomon’s fluent German allows him to join the Nazis as a translator, posing as Josef Peters, an ethnic German. In time, “Peters” is made a member of the elite Hitler Youth, but since Solomon is circumcised, he can be easily revealed as a Jew, and he lives in constant fear that his secret will be discovered.

Germany / France / Poland 1990

Info

Rating

Under 14 Not Allowed

Production year

1990

Global distributor

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Local distributor

Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ

In cinema

11/26/2014