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
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
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
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