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* AssholeVictim: Zenek, a Catholic Pole who is a member of the Soviet orphanage with Solly. He is antisemitic and hates the communists, not to mention having sympathies for the Nazis occupying his country. He threatens to expose Solly as a Jew just before he's shot by German troops.
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* AssholeVictim: Zenek, a Catholic Pole who is a member of the Soviet orphanage with Solly. He is antisemitic and hates the communists, not to mention having sympathies for the Nazis occupying his country. He threatens to expose Solly as a Jew just before he's shot by German troops.until Solly opts to defend himself, then it leads to the Germans attempting to get rid of Zenek. Zenek then gets run over while desperately trying to flee.
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After his sister is killed in Kristallnacht, the young Solomon Perel and his family flee Hitler's Germany and settle in Poland, only for the Nazis to invade a year later. Fleeing with his elder brother, Solly is quickly separated and ends up in a Soviet orphanage. He is separated from his friends again when the Nazis invade the Soviet Union during Operation ''Barbarossa''. Picked up by a German patrol, he is able to pass himself off as a ''Volksdeutscher'' (ethnic German living outside Germany) and is taken in by the unit. After accidentally capturing a Soviet position and being declared a war hero, the company captain soon adopts him and sends Solly to an elite Hitler Youth school in Berlin, where his secret is in constant danger of being exposed.
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After his sister is killed in Kristallnacht, the young Solomon Perel and his family flee Hitler's Germany and settle in Poland, only for the Nazis to invade a year later. Fleeing with his elder brother, brother Issak, Solly is quickly separated and ends up in a Soviet orphanage. He is separated from his friends again when the Nazis invade the Soviet Union during Operation ''Barbarossa''. Picked up by a German patrol, he is able to pass himself off as a ''Volksdeutscher'' (ethnic German living outside Germany) and is taken in by the unit. After accidentally capturing a Soviet position and being declared a war hero, the company captain soon adopts him and sends Solly to an elite Hitler Youth school in Berlin, where his secret is in constant danger of being exposed.
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** Solly didn't meet Stalin's son until later when he had been established in the German Army. He translated during his interrogation. In fact, his job was not only as a regular soldier there, but a translator as he'd learned fluent Russian from his time in the Komsomol orphanage. After the war, he worked briefly as a translator for the Soviets too.
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** Solly didn't meet Stalin's son until later when he had been established in the German Army. He translated during his interrogation. In fact, his job was not only as a regular soldier there, there but also as a translator translator, as he'd learned fluent Russian from his time in the Komsomol orphanage. After the war, he worked briefly as a translator for the Soviets too.
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** The final sequence, where Solly is set to be shot and then his brother recognizes him, didn't happen. He was captured and soon released (not by the Soviets, but the US Army) and spent some time searching for his relatives, finding Isaak months later.
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** The final sequence, where Solly is set to be shot and then his brother recognizes him, didn't happen. He was captured and soon released (not by the Soviets, Soviets but by the US Army) and spent some time searching for his relatives, finding Isaak months later.
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* DepravedHomosexual: {{Downplayed}}, but Robert tries to grope Solly in the bath, then runs after him when he takes off in a panic to escape. However, after Robert discovers he's Jewish he keeps Solly's secret while Solly also then keeps his (as the Nazis persecuted gay men as well) and doesn't attempt to do anything else.
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* DepravedHomosexual: {{Downplayed}}, but Robert tries to grope Solly in the bath, then runs after him when he takes off in a panic to escape. However, after Robert discovers he's Jewish Jewish, he keeps Solly's secret while Solly also then keeps his (as the Nazis persecuted gay men as well) and doesn't attempt to do anything else.
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* GenocideSurvivor: [[spoiler:Solly manages to survive the Holocaust [[MistakenEthnicity while pretending]] he's an "Aryan", even being in the ''Hitler Youth and Army'' without being discovered (at least by anyone who told). He wasn't even ''aware'' of the genocide until the war's end (though he obviously knew about lesser persecution), discovering that only his brother Isaak lived, with other surviving prisoners along with him seen at Auschwitz. Most astonishing of it all, his survival actually did happen as the film portrays.]]
* GodTest: The Soviet instructors at the Komsomol academy in Poland stage one to "prove" that God does not exist for their students after one Polish boy disputes this. He's told he should pray for candy from God, which doesn't come. At the same time one of the Soviet men goes up on the roof and drops in candy to the students, which they say is from Stalin. Thus they claim God doesn't exist and won't give them candy, but Stalin always will. Solly does not look at all convinced by this, but wisely stays quiet.
* GodTest: The Soviet instructors at the Komsomol academy in Poland stage one to "prove" that God does not exist for their students after one Polish boy disputes this. He's told he should pray for candy from God, which doesn't come. At the same time one of the Soviet men goes up on the roof and drops in candy to the students, which they say is from Stalin. Thus they claim God doesn't exist and won't give them candy, but Stalin always will. Solly does not look at all convinced by this, but wisely stays quiet.
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* GenocideSurvivor: [[spoiler:Solly [[spoiler: Solly manages to survive the Holocaust [[MistakenEthnicity while pretending]] he's an "Aryan", even being in the ''Hitler Youth and Army'' without being discovered (at least by anyone who told). He wasn't even ''aware'' of the genocide until the war's end (though he obviously knew about lesser persecution), discovering that only his brother Isaak lived, with other surviving prisoners along with him seen at Auschwitz. Most astonishing of it all, his survival actually did happen as the film portrays.]]
* GodTest: The Soviet instructors at the Komsomol academy in Poland stage one to "prove" that God does not exist for their students after one Polish boy disputes this. He's told he should pray for candy from God, which doesn't come. At the sametime time, one of the Soviet men goes up on the roof and drops in candy to the students, which they say is from Stalin. Thus they claim God doesn't exist and won't give them candy, but Stalin always will. Solly does not look at all convinced by this, this but wisely stays quiet.
* GodTest: The Soviet instructors at the Komsomol academy in Poland stage one to "prove" that God does not exist for their students after one Polish boy disputes this. He's told he should pray for candy from God, which doesn't come. At the same
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* ThePeepingTom: Solly gets the hots [[HotForTeacher for his female instructor]] at the orphanage, climbing onto the wall so he can spy through the open window at her in her night gown.
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* ThePeepingTom: Solly gets the hots [[HotForTeacher for his female instructor]] at the orphanage, climbing onto the wall so he can spy through the open window at her in her night gown.nightgown.
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* RealPersonEpilogue: At the end after Solly has survived World War II, the real Solomon Perel appears briefly in the present day.
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* RealPersonEpilogue: At the end end, after Solly has survived World War II, the real Solomon Perel appears briefly in the present day.
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** Robert the gay soldier and Solly learn each other's secrets and so they keep it between them and watch out for each other, until Robert is killed in combat.
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** Robert the gay soldier and Solly learn each other's secrets and so they keep it between them and watch out for each other, other until Robert is killed in combat.
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** Solly is briefly intimidated by a soldier from the NKVD when one of his communist teachers is arrested.
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** Solly is briefly intimidated by a soldier from the NKVD when one of his communist Communist teachers is arrested.
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* TheToothHurts: After learning that he'll have to be fully naked for a physical, which would reveal his circumcised penis, Solly immediately fakes a tooth ache and is taken away to have it pulled. After a very painful extraction, the dentist confusedly notes that the tooth appears quite healthy.
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* TheToothHurts: After learning that he'll have to be fully naked for a physical, which would reveal his circumcised penis, Solly immediately fakes a tooth ache toothache and is taken away to have it pulled. After a very painful extraction, the dentist confusedly notes that the tooth appears quite healthy.
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** They also had a sister who fled to the Soviet Union, with her fate being unknown.
** Solly didn't meet Stalin's son until later when he had been established in the German Army. He translated during his interrogation. In fact, his job was not just as a regular soldier there, but a translator as he'd learned fluent Russian from his time in the Komsomol orphanage.
** Solly didn't meet Stalin's son until later when he had been established in the German Army. He translated during his interrogation. In fact, his job was not just as a regular soldier there, but a translator as he'd learned fluent Russian from his time in the Komsomol orphanage.
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** They also had a sister who fled to was killed by the Soviet Union, with her fate being unknown.Nazis, though she isn't mentioned in the film.
** Solly didn't meet Stalin's son until later when he had been established in the German Army. He translated during his interrogation. In fact, his job was notjust only as a regular soldier there, but a translator as he'd learned fluent Russian from his time in the Komsomol orphanage.orphanage. After the war, he worked briefly as a translator for the Soviets too.
** Solly didn't meet Stalin's son until later when he had been established in the German Army. He translated during his interrogation. In fact, his job was not
