Europa Europa

Europa Europa

1990 · 112 min · DE · R · 7.3 (218 votes)
Dir. Agnieszka Holland · Starring Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Piotr Kozłowski, Klaus Abramowsky, Michèle Gleizer · Music Zbigniew Preisner

A True Story

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A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

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A harrowing journey of a young boy navigating the treacherous landscape of WWII, forced to adopt a new identity to survive. It's a tense, unsettling, yet ultimately resilient story of maintaining one's spirit amidst unimaginable circumstances.

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