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14 November 1990 (France)
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A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth. full summary | full synopsis
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Jewish
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 6 wins
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2 nominations
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Full Moon: Julie Delpy, Parisian Animal
(From FilmExperience. 3 September 2009, 8:30 PM, PDT)
DVD Review: Criterion Release of Lars von Trier’s ‘Europa’ Hypnotizes
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 10 December 2008, 6:48 AM, PST)
(From FilmExperience. 3 September 2009, 8:30 PM, PDT)
DVD Review: Criterion Release of Lars von Trier’s ‘Europa’ Hypnotizes
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 10 December 2008, 6:48 AM, PST)
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A Different Kind of Kulturkampf
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Marco Hofschneider | ... | Salomon 'Solly' 'Salek' Perel / Josef 'Jupp' Peters | |
| Julie Delpy | ... | Leni | |
| René Hofschneider | ... | Isaak Perel - Salomons brother | |
| Piotr Kozlowski | ... | David Perel - Salomons brother | |
| André Wilms | ... | Soldier Robert Kellerman | |
| Ashley Wanninger | ... | Gerd | |
| Halina Labonarska | ... | Leni's Mother | |
| Klaus Abramowsky | ... | Solomon's Father | |
| Michèle Gleizer | ... | Solomon's Mother | |
| Marta Sandrowicz | ... | Bertha Perel - Salomons sister | |
| Nathalie Schmidt | ... | Basia - Cinema cashier | |
| Delphine Forest | ... | Inna Moyseyevna | |
| Martin Maria Blau | ... | Ulmayer | |
| Andrzej Mastalerz | ... | Zenek Dracz | |
| Solomon Perel | ... | Himself |
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112 min | 107 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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The film met with a lukewarm reception in its native Germany, with the local media being less than complementary about it. The German Oscar selection committee did not even include it as a submission for that year's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Much embarrassment ensued when it went on to become one of the most successful German films ever released in the US, winning a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: 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.
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Referenced in The 100 Greatest War Films (2005) (TV)
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One has to be annoyed with comments that question either the historical verisimilitude or the integrity of this film, whether from the shaky ground of some rigid, illiberal ideological or religious prejudice or from some one-sided version of history. Furthermore, negative ad hominem attacks on someone other than political leaders or other persons who willingly seek out the public eye are reprehensible.
Does this story ring true? It does to me, and if there is even one-tenth as much basis in fact in the life of Salomon Perel as is represented in the film, I am satisfied. Having been to all the places and delved into the culture and history of all the nationalities that comprise its background, I am also convinced that much if not all of the story is correct at a level that goes well beyond whether this or that small factual detail is rooted in what actually happened to the real Perel.
Moreover, "Hitlerjunge Salomon" (better known in English-speaking countries as "Europa, Europa") is a masterful piece of cinema, beautifully produced and directed, and bearing a cachet of authenticity that few cross-cultural films achieve. I can attest to the utterly convincing script and characterization within the German language portion, and the bits in Polish and Russian seem equally strong.
Why is it so difficult to believe that a malleable teenager raised in a cross-cultural environment would be any less rooted in one part of his life than another? Marco Hofschneider captures precisely the right tone as he demonstrates how "Solly" and "Jupp" are two complementary aspects of the same person. Indeed, there are even good Germans and bad Germans, good Poles and bad Poles, etc., etc. throughout the film.
None of this compromises the truth that millions of other Jews did not survive the Holocaust. Nor does it demean their memory to cast a glance or two at this singular exception. The survivors have their stories as do the victims, and to explore the wider spectrum of life that goes on is surely to find hope in the ruins of an otherwise depraved episode in world history.