A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
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Title: Europa Europa (1990)
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Cast
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Solomon Perel | ... |
Salomon Perel heute
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René Hofschneider | ... | |
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Klaus Abramowsky | ... | |
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Michèle Gleizer | ... |
Mutter
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Marta Sandrowicz | ... |
Bertha
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Nathalie Schmidt | ... |
Basia
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Delphine Forest | ... | |
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Zenek
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Martin Maria Blau | ... |
Ulmayer
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| Wlodzimierz Press | ... |
Stalin's Sohn
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Klaus Kowatsch | ... |
Schulz
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Holger Kunkel | ... |
Kramer
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Bernhard Howe | ... |
Feldwebel
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
A Jewish boy, separated from his family in the early days of WWII, poses as a German orphan and is thereafter taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually made a Hitler Youth. Although improbabilities and happenstance are cornerstones of the film, it is based upon a true story. Written by Keith Loh <[email protected]>
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In the tradition of Voltaire's Candide and Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for mature treatment of holocaust issues | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
14 November 1990 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Europa, Europa See more »Edit
Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$31,433, 30 June 1991, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$5,575,738Company Credits
Production Co:
Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), Les Films du Losange, Telmar Film International Ltd. See more »
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Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1
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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. See more »Goofs
In the classroom scene, where the teacher is demonstrating racial profiling techniques on Peters using calipers to measure his head, the calipers sometimes move and produce no sounds. Other times sounds are heard when the calipers aren't moving. Also, many of the sounds that are heard are inconsistent with the sounds that instruments like these should produce and how they should be properly used. See more »Quotes
Salomon 'Solly' 'Salek' Perel: The landowners and the bourgeois keep the people in ignorance. They encourage religious superstitions, and with the help of the popes, priests and rabbis they smother all revolutionary instinct. That's why we call religion the opium of the masses.See more »
Hitlerjunge Salomon a.k.a. Europa Europa is probably one of the best films ever made. It delivers hard-to-believe scenes quite often, but knowing it's based on a true story, it just becomes more and more fascinating. It's impossible not to admire the courage and the persistence of Salomon Perel. And a subtle depiction of his real life experiences has given us an adorable movie. I'm personally a fan of Holocaust movies in general, but this one is just special. Fear, anxiety, love, hate, friendship.. Basically, life itself! I really admire Jewish people for enduring this neverending hatred against them; and I admire the Germans who are not afraid to put the magnifying glass on their ancestors' dirty deeds by making such marvellous movies about The Second World War. Nothing much to say about the acting. This is one of the very few movies that the casting is just right, and everyone's the best actor of the movie. Language adaptation could be mentioned as a minor flaw of the movie. There must be enough suitable German, Polish, and Russian actors to play their own countrymen. I wonder why they used foreign actors and thus dubbing instead. In spite of this fact, the movie is simply magnificent, and deserves every kind of praise there is.
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