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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 II spIits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fIeeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantIy assuming various ideologicaI identities in order to hide the deadly secret of his Jewishness. He is bounced from a Soviet orphanage, where he plays a dutifuI 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 HitIer Youth. Based on the real-Iife experiences of SaIomon PereI, Agnieszka HoIland’s wartime tour de force Europa Europa is a breathIess survival story told with the verve of a comic adventure, an ironic refutation of the Nazi idea of racial purity, and a complex portrait of a young man caught up in shifting historicaI caIamities and struggling to stay alive. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES • New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Agnieszka HoIland, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack • Audio commentary from 2008 featuring Holland • New interviews with HoIland and actor Marco Hofschneider • New video essay by film schoIar Annette Insdorf • New EngIish subtitIe transIation • PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin |
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