Story
Theme day World War II In the chaos of the Second World War, the young Jewish boy Sally gets separated from his family. His odyssey takes him from Germany via Poland to Russia, where he’s picked up by a German patrol. To save himself, Sally claims to be an ethnic German abducted by Russian troops. He’s taken in by the soldiers and is soon the teachers’ favourite and a model pupil of the Hitlerjugend academy. Hiding his identity, he lives in constant fear of being found out.Based on the autobiography I was Hitlerjunge Salomon by Salomon Perel.
Director
AGNIESZKA HOLLAND (*1948) is one of Poland's best-known directors. Hitlerjunge Salomon was nominated for an Oscar® and won a Golden Globe®.Trailer
Info
Europa Europa
Fiction Feature
German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian
Michel//FF2016
Germany, France
1989
113 min
OV with German subtitles
Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland
Julie Delpy, Marco Hofschneider, Rene Hofschneider, Salomon Perel, Hanns Zischler
Artur Brauner, Margaret Ménégoz
Jacek Petrycki
Isabelle Lorente, Ewa Smal
Zbigniew Preisner
Allan Starski
Universum Film
Universum Film
CCC Filmkunst GmbH; Les Films du Losange (Paris)