Europa, Europa

Released 1990
Stars Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski, Klaus Abramowsky, Michèle Gleizer, Julie Delpy
Directed by Agnieszka Holland

German-Jewish teenage boy flees the Nazis and conceals his identity--only to find himself drafted into Hitler's army! Eye-opening, fact-based WW2 Holocaust drama, from Solomon Perel's autobiography, is both harrowing and humorous; deftly blends horrific images with black comedy to depict the growing pains of a boy becoming a man in the midst of a world in chaos. Polish writer-director Holland has made a riveting and moving film.

Suumary by Leonard Maltin