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EUROPA, EUROPA

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Time: 110 min

Country: France/Germany

Date: 1991

A powerful WWII and Holocaust drama, this sweeping statement about the resilience of the human spirit stars Marco Hofschneider as Solomon Perel, a Jewish youth who alternately pretends to be a Nazi and a Russian during the war. With bee-stung lips, clear pale skin and a sexy innocence, the teenager’s beauty becomes his protector – disarming both women and men. While masquerading as a German soldier, Perel is befreinded by Robert (Andre Wilms), who discovers his Jewsih identity (by seeing his circumcised penis) after an awkward seduction attempt. Instead of turning him in, Robert, an ‘other kind of German’ and clearly in love with him, treats him like a brother and protects him.

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