EUROPA EUROPA [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1990
• Genre: Drama, War
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Marco Hofschneider, André Wilms, Ashley Wanninger, Klaus Abramowsky, Michèle Gleizer, Delphine Forest, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, Martin Maria Blau, Bernhard Howe, Klaus Kowatsch, Holger Kunkel, Halina Labonarska, Andrzej Mastalerz, Nathalie Schmidt, Jorg Schnass, Erich Schwarz, Norbert Schwarz, Anna Seniuk, Solomon Perel, Piotr Kozlowski, Marta Sandrowicz, Wlodzimierz Press, Wolfgang Bathke, Ryszard Pietruski, Jaroslaw Gruda, Artur Barcis, Aleksy Awdiejew, Aleksander Bednarz, Zbigniew Bielski, Bohdan Ejmont, Jaroslaw Gajewski, Kama Kowalewska, Wlodzimierz Musial, Tadeusz Wojtych, Marbo Becker, Jan Pawel Kruk, Agnieszka Kumor, Wojciech Skibinski, Agnieszka Holland
• Director: Agnieszka Holland
• Runtime: 1:52
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Les Films du Losange, CNC
• Media Format: Movie