Europa Europa
Europa Europa (German: Hitlerjunge Salomon, lit., "Hitler Youth Salomon") is a 1990 historical war drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland, and starring Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler, and André Wilms. It is based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German-Jewish boy who escaped the Holocaust by masquerading as a Nazi and joining the Hitler Youth. Perel himself appears briefly as "himself" in the film's finale. The film's title refers to World War II's division of continental Europe, resulting in a constant national shift of allegiances, identities, and front lines.
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| Directed by | Agnieszka Holland |
| Screenplay by | Agnieszka Holland |
| Based on | I Was Hitler Youth Salomon by Solomon Perel |
| Produced by | Artur Brauner Margaret Ménégoz |
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| Cinematography | Jacek Petrycki |
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| Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures (US) |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
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| Languages | German Russian Polish Hebrew Yiddish |
| Box office | $5,575,738 (domestic) |
The film is an international co-production between the German company CCC Film and companies in France and Poland. Europa Europa won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1992.