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| | 'Europa Europa' |
 | | In the eyes of his persecutors, his true crime is that he is who he is. For Solly, the young Jewish hero of "Europa, Europa," Agnieszka Holland's darkly ironic masterpiece, his racial identity is his curse, his dangerous secret. |
 | | At this point, as Solly sheds the role of the Komsomol to wear the uniform of, first, a Nazi soldier, and then, after (accidentally) becoming a hero in battle, the elite Nazi Youth, the ironies -- and the danger of discovery -- intensify. |
 | | Solly's ambivalence toward his own Jewishness is natural; we sympathize when, at one point, he buries his identification papers, then halfheartedly retrieves them and returns them to their hiding place in his underwear. |
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