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...World War II Germany, a Jewish adolescent survives by becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. Writer-director Agnieszka Holland based her miraculously jaunty, profoundly moving portrayal of the will to live on the true story of one Solomon Perel. And Marco Hofschneider plays him with a stunned guile that goes beyond acting...
...Youth school, where every shower is a threat: circumcision was a death warrant in Hitler's Germany. There is comedy and suspense in his story, shrewdness and innocence in his well-played character, irony and sadness in his situation, which keeps him always isolated in a crowd. Writer-director Agnieszka Holland's energetic film neither sentimentalizes nor solemnizes Solly. It is finally a celebration of individual wit triumphing over mass viciousness and stupidity...
Written by Agnieszka Holland...
However, Anna gives this old premise some unusual new twists. Notably, Writer Agnieszka Holland and Director Yurek Bogayevicz decide that the aging star's decline is more interesting than either her protege's success or potential bitchiness between the two of them Young Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova) worships Anna (Sally Kirkland) even after she has eclipsed Anna, who in turn manifests no jealousy or ill will toward Krystyna, at least not until near the end of the film. Yet Anna's decay is inexorable, pathetic and real, and is correctly the film's focus...
Screenplay by Boleslaw Michalek, Agnieszka Holland and Andrzej Wajda...