Europa Europa
DVD - 2019
"As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various ideological identities in order to hide the deadly secret of his Jewishness. He is bounced from a Soviet orphanage, where he plays a dutiful Stalinist, to the Russian front, where he hides in plain sight as an interpreter for the German army, and back to his home country, where he takes on his most dangerous role: a member of the Hitler Youth. Based on the real-life experiences of Salomon Perel, Agnieszka Holland's wartime tour de force Europa Europa is a breathless survival story told with the verve of a comic adventure, an ironic re...futation of the Nazi idea of racial purity, and a complex portrait of a young man caught up in shifting historical calamities and struggling to stay alive"--Container.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Historical films
Biographical films
War films
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2019]
- Language
- German
Polish
Russian
English - Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Director-approved DVD special edition ; DVD edition
- Item Description
- Based on the autobiography of Sally Perel.
DVD release of the 1991 motion picture.
Title from screen credits.
Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Agnieszka Holland; Audio commentary from 2008 featuring Holland; New interviews with Holland and actor Marco Hofschneider; New interview with Salomon Perel, on whose autobiography the film is loosely based; New video essay by film scholar Annette Insdorf; New English subtitle translation. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital mono.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: R.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Jacek Petrycki ; editors, Ewa Smal, Isabelle Lorente ; music, Zbigniew Preisner.
- ISBN
- 9781681436050
