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Hitlerjunge Salomon

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Country: Germany, France, Poland

1990 | 113 min. | German, Russian, Polish, Hebrew
Subtitles: German, English
FSK 12

Cast_ Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler Screenplay_ Agnieszka Holland Camera_ Jacek Petrycki Producer_ Artur Brauner, Margaret Ménégoz Rights_ Deutsche Kinemathek

For her sensitive adaptation of Salomon Perel’s memoirs, Holland received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1992.

In 1939, at the outset of the war, 14-year-old Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family during a pogrom. This marks the beginning of an odyssey involving changing identities for the Jewish boy. As a Russian orphan, a German soldier on the Eastern Front, and finally as a member of the Hitler Youth, he has only one goal: to somehow survive the war.

With the support of Jacek Petrycki, the cinematographer who shot her three early Polish films, legendary producer Artur Brauner, production designer Allan Starski (recipient of the 1994 Oscar for ›Schindler’s List‹), and an international cast, Agnieszka Holland achieved one of the greatest cinematic successes of the early 1990s.

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Agnieszka Holland's life has repeatedly intersected with historical turning points. Born in Warsaw in 1948, she was a student in Prague in 1968. Around 1980, during the rise of the Solidarność movement, she made her first feature films - and subsequently became one of the most important voices in European cinema. Her latest film ›Green Border‹ won several prizes in Venice, but was subjected to a state smear campaign in her home country. It is clear, therefore, that Agnieszka Holland's fight for the past, present and future of Europe is far from over.

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