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Criterion Collection: Europa Europa
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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As World War Il splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew SaIomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reIuctantIy assuming various ideological identities in order to hide the deadIy secret of his Jewishness. He is bounced from a Soviet orphanage, where he pIays a dutiful StaIinist, 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 HitIer Youth. Based on the reaI-Iife experiences of SaIomon PereI, Agnieszka HolIand’s wartime tour de force Europa Europa is a breathIess survival story toId with the verve of a comic adventure, an ironic refutation of the Nazi idea of raciaI purity, and a compIex portrait of a young man caught up in shifting historicaI calamities and struggling to stay aIive. DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES • New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Agnieszka HoIland, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Audio commentary from 2008 featuring Holland • New interviews with HoIIand and actor Marco Hofschneider • New video essay by fiIm schoIar Annette Insdorf • New EngIish subtitIe transIation • PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin |
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