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The Berlin festival showed more than 100 films, yet one local product was shunned by the festival's organisers. "Hitlerjunge Salomon" (English title "Europa, Europa") is the story of the early life of Salomon Peres, a German Jew now living in Israel. To see it, you had to go to one of two independent cinemas in east Berlin and they gave it only an irregular showing.
The Peres family fled from Hitler's Germany to Poland, where two years later the Nazi terror caught up with them. Salomon moved farther east, and the Red Army put him into an orphanage. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, he saved his life by claiming to be an...