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Agnieszka Holland Film. <i>Europa Europa</i>

Thursday, September 20, 2012
12:00 AM
Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor

Agnieszka Holland, director (112 min., 1990) <br>German and Russian with English subtitles

Based on the true story of a young German Jew, Solomon Perel, who survived the Holocaust by joining the Hitler Youth. After his sister is killed, Solomon flees with his family to Soviet-occupied Poland. When the Nazis invade, Solomon is taken for a German hero and sent to the elite Hitler Youth Academy, but he lives in constant fear that his secret will be discovered.