| View Larger Image | Europa Europa | DVDStarring: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Piotr Kozlowski
Directed By: Agnieszka Holland
Also With: Solomon Perel (Writer), Agnieszka Holland (Writer), Artur Brauner (Producer), Christina Undritz (Producer), Janusz Morgenstern (Producer), Lew Rywin (Producer), Paul Hengge (Writer)
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| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 112 minutes | | Format: | Color, Dubbed, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | MGM (Video & DVD) | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.66:1 | | Release Date: | March 04, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 11,624th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Description
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. |
Amazon.com
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 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 100 reviews)
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An unusually even-handed war film by Liam Dhu (Upstate N.Y.)  4 Stars
September 02, 2009
It is a rare film that deals with the Third Reich, the Jewish "solutions" and the horror to be seen all around. The hero , a young Jew, finds himself to be accepted, even the recipient of great affection by Jews, Russian Communists and German National Socialists alike and it is almost in equal portions that that affection is offered to the young man. The film offers us glimpses into these three very different worlds and the author , while sharing his tragic losses and his hiding from all who are close to him, gives us glimpses of compassion even among the Nazis and the hard-line Communists of Stalin's Russia.There are instances of rare humor and if the question of keeping one's foreskin has never seemed to be of much importance, there is something here of both tragedy and humor in the simple matter of urinating around other guys. This is not one of those all too common "in your face" Holocaust films. Solomon Perel has survived in more than having kept his life. He has survived with his spirit, his dignity and his humanity intact as well.
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Next Holocaust Tragic Comedy by Michael Kerjman (The Earth) 4 Stars
August 27, 2009
As it is customised recently, War II and Holocaust are being depicted in tragic comedies to modern viewers much easy to swallow, perhaps (see The Tin Drum ~ Original Theatrical Release [Import, All-region] (Dvd), Life Is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)).
Camera follows a thirteen old around war-turned European countries, and his fantastic encounters with different people-friends, enemies, paedophiles, sexy females, soldiers of any walks and relatives at the end young man shown up.
Entertaining MANSES (stories) of the drama and history of the Europe and folks of the World War Two.
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Moving Surprising Movie About Young Jewish Man Who Became A Nazi For Cover  5 Stars
August 11, 2009
This moving story is about a young Jewish man from Germany whose family refugees to Poland but is caught up by the Nazis anyway. The boy escapes to Russia where he is placed in an orphanage. When the Nazis invade again he finds he can pass for German and be useful as a Russian translator. The amazing circumstances continue through the war. The movie is a life affirming tale about a Jewish man who survived despite the odds. Very touching, very moving.
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A Boy In Search Of Himself by John D. Cofield 5 Stars
April 07, 2009
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.
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I tossed my copy in the garbage! Bad acting. by JOJO DANCER  1 Stars
March 10, 2009
This is a real stinker. Get casablanca with Humphrey Bogart or Schindler's list or saving private Ryan if you want a WW2 movie. My wife and I both thought it was a real stinker. I purchased the movie. Half way through it we took it out of the dvd player and tossed it in the garbage. The acting is the worst.
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