Europa Europa (1990)

Nutzer-Bewertung:

7.9/10   

Regisseur:

Agnieszka Holland

Drehbuchautoren:

Paul Hengge (additional material)
Agnieszka Holland (writer)

Premierendatum:

14. November 1990 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Krieg

Plot:

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Plot Keywords:

Dead Children | Gay Slur | Male Frontal Nudity | WWII | Nazi

Auszeichnungen:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 6 wins & 2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

A Well-Done Story Worth Seeing

Besetzung

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

Alternativ:

Europa Europe (USA)
Hitlerjunge Salomon (Deutschland)

Länge:

112 Min | 107 Min

Land:

Deutschland | France | Poland

Sprache:

Deutsch | Russisch | Polnische | Hebräisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Eastmancolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.66 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Germany:12 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:18 | UK:15 | USA:R

Drehorte:

Lódz, Poland

Firma:

Central Cinema Company Film (CCC)

Dies und das:

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.

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: When the Russian refugees are fleeing Poland and are strafed by a German fighter plane, the fighter plane is obviously a smaller scale radio controlled model. The airplane resembles a Supermarine Spitfire, an airplane not used by the Germans.

Dialogzitate:

Inna: [while having sex with Solly] Mein Führer!

Querbezüge:

Bezug enthalten in The 100 Greatest War Films (2005) (TV)

A Well-Done Story Worth Seeing

This was a pretty interesting "true story" about a young man who escaped Jewish persecution by pretending to be a Russian and then being a German.

Neither the Germans nor Russians looked too good in here, which is understandable since it was the period of the Nazis and the Communists, respectively. The film makes no bones pointing out how the Nazis were bent on exterminating all Jews in Europe while the Russians were shown in all their anti-God propaganda. Another issue in this movie was "circumcision," and no need to explain that.

It was also interesting to see Julie Delpy as a 16-year-old. She didn't have the mature beauty she had as a full-grown woman in her 20s but she still was a looker. Marco Hofschneider was very good in the lead as the boyish-looking "Solomon Peters" aka a bunch of alias.

Overall, I found it a good movie, one worth watching for sure, but questionable about adding to my fairly-large collection of films. However, now that it's out on DVD, perhaps I'll re-consider.