[Berlin] : CCC-Filmkunst Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, c2003.
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Part of the series World films;World films (MGM Home Entertainment Inc.)
Notes:
- DVD Region 1, NTSC Dolby digital mono.
- In German and Russian or dubbed French, with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish closed captioned.
- Nach den Lebenserinnerungen von [Based on the memoirs of] Salomon Perel.
- Marco Hofschneider, Andre Wilms, Ashley Wanninger, Klaus Abramowsky, Michele Gleizer, Delphine Forest, Rene Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler.
- Kamera, Jacek Petrycki schnitt [editor], Ewa Smal architekt [production design], Allan Starski music, Zbigniew Preisner kostüme, Wieslawa Starska, Malgorzata Stefaniak.
- Originally produced as a German/French motion picture in 1990.
- MPAA rating: Rated R (occasional nudity and sexual situations).
- This film dramatizes the bizarre but true story of Saloman ‘Solly’ Perel, a Jew who avoided the concentration camps and certain death by hiding in plain sight. After Kristallnacht, his family flees to Poland, but soon after Solly has lost his brother and is alone, living by luck and wits. Solly finds himself in a series of adventures: in a Russian orphanage, captured by a German unit, celebrated as a hero, and sent in triumph to a Hitler Youth School. Although born on the same day as the Führer, Solly is circumcised and so must avoid intimate encounters. He fends off both a homosexual Nazi and a beautiful, virulently anti-Semitic girlfriend who’s dying to conceive an Aryan child for the Fatherland. Despite some narrow escapes, Solly thrives through the chaos, as it seems a higher power is keeping an eye on him.
- Special features: Theatrical trailer (2 min.) More great MGM releases [text feature].
- Main title/My bris — Kristallnacht — Polish now/A son’s duty — Soviet patriot orphan — Religious candy wars — The right papers — Facing his accuser — Serving in the holy war — An actor for life — The last kiss — The heroic deserter — Proud Hitler youth — How to recognize a Jew — Love and foreskin — Doctors and dentists — On the ghetto train — A baby for the Führer — Young leaders/A miracle — Things he didn’t know — Only a Jew/Credits.
- Winner, 1992 Golden Globe–Best Foreign Language Film.
Subjects:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Personal narratives — Drama.
- Jews — Germany — Biography — Drama.
- World War, 1939-1945 — Jews — Drama.
- Nazis — Drama.
- German literature — Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures, German.
- Motion pictures, Russian.
- War films. lcgft
- Biographical films. lcgft
- Fiction films. lcgft
- Feature films. lcgft
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcgft
- Feature films — France. local
- Feature films — Germany (West). local
- Feature films — Poland. local
- Foreign language films — German. local
- Film adaptations. lcgft
Requested by deVries, J