Identity and racial politics in Europa (1990)
Europa Europa (1990) is the tale of a young German-Jewish boy named Solek who undergoes a series of identity transformations in his efforts to escape the Holocaust. At the beginning of the film, Solek and his family live in Nazi Germany. They decide to flee, first to Poland, and then as it becomes increasingly clear that not even Poland is a safe place, the boys' parents send their sons to the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. is ironically a 'safe' place for their children because at least they will not be persecuted as Jews. Solek is separated from his brother and when found by the Nazis in a Soviet orphanage he pretends that he is a German Latvian named Josef Peters. The Nazis adopt him and find him useful, thanks to his fluent German and Russian. Thus, during the period of identity definition of most adolescents, Solek is forced to repeatedly lie about his true nature and live amongst people who regard him as from a race of subhumans.
It might be assumed that the one stable, constant aspect of Solek's identity is his body: he is circumcised and this becomes a continuing preoccupation throughout the film. Solek is first discovered by a Nazi officer named Robert who is a homosexual, but the officer does not reveal this because he is also hiding something. Later, when Solek is sent to an elite school to be educated as part of the Hitler youth, he undergoes a variety of subterfuges to 'fake'...
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