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Europa Europa

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Europa Europa

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Second World War biographical drama starring Marco Hofschneider and Julie Delpy. After his sister is killed during a Nazi attack on the Perels home in 1938, 13-year-old Salomon and his family flee Germany for Poland. Sent further east with his brother when war breaks out, Salomon is later taken by the Red Army to a Soviet orphanage in Grodno.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

David Parkinson

This extraordinary story from writer/director Agnieszka Holland proves once more that truth is stranger than fiction. Marco Hofschneider is hugely impressive as Salomon Perel, the Jewish teenager who fled to Soviet-occupied Poland to escape the Nazi tyranny, only to become accepted as a loyal Aryan after he was captured by the advancing Germans. Agonisingly hiding the physical clues to his extraction, he becomes a hero of the Hitler Youth and even manages to romance rabid antisemite Julie Delpy. Holland's wonderfully understated direction allows the cruel ironies to bite harder and she makes chilling use of the paraphernalia of totalitarianism.

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Cast

rolenameYoung Salomon PerelMarco HofschneiderLeniJulie DelpyRobertAndré WilmsOld Salomon PerelSalomon PerelGerd Ashley WanningerIsaak PerelRené HofschneiderDavid PerelPiotr KozlowskiFatherKlaus AbramowskyMotherMichele GleizerBertaMarta SandrowiczBasiaNathalie SchmidtInna MoisievnaDelphine Forest

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rolenameDirectorAgnieszka Holland

Details

Theatrical distributor

Arrow Film Distributors Ltd

Released on

1992-05-15

Languages

German | Russian | Polish | Hebrew

Guidance

Nudity.

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Colour

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