Europa Europa / Les Films du Losange, Margaret Menegoz and CCC-Filmkunst Gmbh, Artur Brauner present ; screenplay, Agnieszka Holland ; produced by Margaret Menegoz and Artur Brauner ; a film by Agnieszka Holland.
Edition:
Director-approved DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen.
Based on the autobiography of Sally Perel. DVD release of the 1991 motion picture. Title from screen credits. Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Agnieszka Holland; Audio commentary from 2008 featuring Holland; New interviews with Holland and actor Marco Hofschneider; New interview with Salomon Perel, on whose autobiography the film is loosely based; New video essay by film scholar Annette Insdorf; New English subtitle translation. Marco Hofschneider, André Wilms, Ashley Wanninger, Klaus Abramowsky, Michèle Gleizer, Delphine Forest, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, Rene Hofschneider.
Summary:
"As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various ideological identities in order to hide the deadly secret of his Jewishness. He is bounced from a Soviet orphanage, where he plays a dutiful Stalinist, to the Russian front, where he hides in plain sight as an interpreter for the German army, and back to his home country, where he takes on his most dangerous role: a member of the Hitler Youth. Based on the real-life experiences of Salomon Perel, Agnieszka Holland's wartime tour de force Europa Europa is a breathless survival story told with the verve of a comic adventure, an ironic refutation of the Nazi idea of racial purity, and a complex portrait of a young man caught up in shifting historical calamities and struggling to stay alive"--Container.
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