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| Value for Money | 10/10 |
|---|---|
| Reviewer Rating | 10/10 |
| Overall Rating | 10/10  |
Director Agnieszka HollandStarring: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy
Features:
| Europa Europa |  | £11.97P&P - Check site |
| Casshern [Special Edition] | | £15.97P&P - Check site |
| A Plane Is Born - Kit | | £11.99P&P - Check site |
| Casshern | | £11.97P&P - Check site |
| Santana - Down Under | | £17.24P&P - Check site |
Full review by
hlreviewer
on 3rd Sep 2004
User Rating : 10
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Good Points: A powerful story that I couldn't walk away from. Emotionally moving. The viewer is somehow drawn into Solek's role and agonizes and exults with each of his dilemmas. Acting is superb!
Bad Points: Not for children. Nightmare flashes are amazing yet appropriately disturbing.
General comments: Europa Europa - In this film we follow the birth, life and near-death experiences of a young Jewish boy. He is raised Orthodox Jewish. Until the war breaks out and he (around age 12) is separated from his family and ends up living incognito throughout the 2nd World War by his charm and dumb-luck. His journey takes him from Orthodox Judaism into a Russian Leninist/Communist orphanage in Poland for several years. When this group later seeks to escape the invading Nazis - he (Solek) is separated from them and then is assumed to be an Aryan German and is "adopted" into their troop as a kind of mascot. Later, because he is so beloved by the captain of the brigade he is sent to Berlin to attend Hitler's top youth Nazi school. Many adventures ensue. Later still, he gives himself up to the Americans who place him in a prison camp where he ultimately reconnects with his only surviving relative: his brother - Isaac. Together, following the war, they make their way to Palestine/Israel. The power with which this story is filmed and acted left me breathless, wanting to know even more of this story's details. This is drama at its powerful best.
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