Europa (1991)

Directed by

Lars von Trier

Genre

drama film, war film, art film, thriller film

Country

Germany, France, Switzerland, Denmark

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

R

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 363 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In post-World War II Germany, a young American man takes a job as a sleeping car conductor on a train called Europa. He becomes entangled with a German woman and the lingering horrors of the Nazi past.

tensedreamlikebleakslow-burnunsettlingcerebralvisually lushmelancholic

What happens

Europa (known as Zentropa in North America) is a 1991 historical drama film directed and co-written by Lars von Trier. A Danish-led production with co-producers from five other European countries, it is Trier's third theatrical feature film, and the third and final installment in his Europa trilogy, following The Element of Crime (1984) and Epidemic (1987). The film features an international ensemble cast, including Germans Barbara Sukowa and Udo Kier, expatriate American Eddie Constantine, and Swedes Max von Sydow and Ernst-Hugo Järegård. This was German-born French-American Jean-Marc Barr's first collaboration of a series of films with Trier. Europa was influenced by Franz Kafka's Amerika, and the title was chosen "as an echo" of that novel. The music, including the main theme, was composed by Trier's then brother-in-law and frequent collaborator Joachim Holbek, who also composed Riget (1994–2022) and Manderlay (2005). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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