Monthly Polish Film Screenings

The screenings are part of the annual Austin Polish Film Festival that takes place in the fall. For details check austinpolishfilm.com

“Europa, Europa”, 1990, drama, 115 min., English subtitles.
Often, life writes stories, that no writer or filmmaker could make up. And such is a biography of Solomon Perel on which Agnieszka Holland based the screenplay of her film, “Europa, Europa”. Solomon was coming of age in Germany in a Jewish family during the rise of Hitler. In 1935, he was 10 years old, when the family moved to Łódź, Poland after their shoe store was deliberately pillaged and Perel was expelled from school. Read more here: http://austinpolishsociety.org/members/event/monthly-polish-film-screeningeuropa-europa-a-film-by-agnieszka-holland/