Europa Europa

Based on the true story of a young German Jew who survived the Holocaust by falling in with the Nazis. Solomon Perel (Marco Hofschneider) is the son of a Jewish shoe salesman coming of age in Germany during the rise of Adolf Hitler. In 1938 13-year-old Solomon flees to Poland when a group of Nazis attack his family home. When German forces storm Poland, Solomon's fluent German allows him to join the Nazis as a translator, posing as an ethnic German. In time, "Peters" is made a member of the elite Hitler Youth and he lives in constant fear that his secret will be discovered. Solomon's close calls include an attempted seduction a gay officer, and a relationship with a beautiful but violently anti-Semitic woman.