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| Orion Classics | Release Date: May 9, 1991 |
Starring:
Andrzej Mastalerz, Delphine Forest, Klaus Abramowsky, Marco Hofschneider, Marta Sandrowicz, Michèle Gleizer, Nathalie Schmidt, Piotr Kozlowski, René Hofschneider, Solomon Perel
Summary:
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
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Brilliant, biting, bitterly funny epic about a Jewish teenager's stranger-than-fiction adventures during World War II. [28 June 1991, p.22]
As no other Holocaust film quite has, Europa, Europa, with dreamlike clarity, refuses to let us forget that hate works. And that self-hate works even better. [19 July 1991, p.23]
There are a great many movies about the tragic experience of the Jews during the Second World War, but only a handful as passionate, as subtly intelligent, as universal as this one. In Europa Europa, Agnieszka Holland tackles a great theme and, in the process, has made a great movie.
In recreating the fantastic adventures of Solomon Perel, director Agnieszka Holland not only shows a lively appreciation for his anguish and his adolescent desires, but she also illuminates the mentality of mass ideological movements -- both fascist and Communist. That is a large order and Holland, a Polish-born, Paris-based director, carries it out with acute, ironic flair. [03 July 1991, p.E3]
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