Europa Europa

Europa Europa German Hitlerjunge Salomon , lit. Hitler Youth Boy Salomon is a 1990 film directed by Agnieszka Holland. It is based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German Jewish boy who escaped the Holocaust by masquerading not just as a nonJew, but as an elite Aryan German. The film stars Marco Hofschneider as Perel Perel appears briefly as himself in the finale. The film is an international coproduction between CCC Film and companies in France and Poland.

Solek a nickname for Solomon, also called Solly and his family live in Nazi Germany. On the eve of Soleks bar mitzvah, Kristallnacht occurs. He escapes, naked, then hiding in a barrel. At night, he calls his acquaintance to bring him clothes from his house. She refuses, but throws him a leather jacket with a swastika band on its arm. He comes back home. His family is together at home, but his sister is killed by Nazis. The father, who was born in d, Poland, decides to go back there.The Perel family Solek, his parents, his two brothers, David and Isaak decides to move to d, central Poland, where the family believes it will be safe. Solly causes criminal damage and the police are called. Living in d, Solly meets Kasia, a cashier working in a cinema. Thanks to her, Solly can go to the cinema without paying for tickets. Later, they establish a romantic relationship. However, less than a year later, World War II begins with Germany invading the western Polish borders. Solly is happy that the criminal case will be forgotten, since the police will have more important issues to solve. Soleks family decides he and his brother should leave for the European East. Solek meets hysterically upset Kasia, but his brother separates them. Isaak and Solek flee, towards the eastern border of Poland, which soon has been invaded by the Soviet Union. In an ironic scene, as Solek and other Jewish refugees cross a river in a small boat, while a boat carrying Polish refugees fleeing the Soviets passes in the opposite direction, Solomon explains in an internal monologue that the Jews, fearing Nazi persecution, fled toward the Soviets, while the Poles, who feared the Soviets more, fled toward the Germans. The brothers are separated and Solek is placed in a Soviet orphanage in Grodno with other Polish refugee children. ........

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