Movie#1925 ........................"Europa, Europa" (netflix dvd )

Movie #1925 "Europa, Europa" (netflix dvd) I had wanted to see this oscar nominated foreign film from 1990 for a long time, and when it finally popped up in my netflix queue, I sent for it.  I was very disappointed in the film.  The story was difficult to believe all the way through -- that he was thought to be a german solider when he was a jew, taken into the Hitler youth, and doing all kinds of nazi actions that would clearly go against so much his culture, his religion, his family, etc.  for such a long time (about 4 years) was again hard to believe.  I guess if he was a charmer of sorts, but I never saw that in the actor --- I felt he was weak in acting and I never got pulled in to his endeavors.  As a result I was never pulled into the movie, and I would give it 3 stars out of 5.  More background information would have helped somewhat, and if we got introduced more to the family instead of just the sister who has a tragedy occur in the first scene.  One thing I did like, though, was that the film tried to explain about the Russians and their part in the first takeover of Poland from the east coast --- I think that could have been done more clearly, too.

"EUROPA, EUROPA"     1 hour 52 mins              1990

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Director:

 Agnieszka Holland

Writers:

 Agnieszka Holland, Solomon Perel (memoir: Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon) 

Stars:

 Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider