Europa (1991) Lars von Trier

Europa (1991) Lars von Trier

Director: Lars von Trier | Writers: Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel | Editor: Hervé Schneid | Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Eddie Constantine, Erik Mørk, Henning Jensen, Erno Müller, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine, Jørgen Reenberg | Genre: Drama, War, Foreign | Cinematographers: Henning Bendtsen, Edward Klosinski, Jean-Paul Meurisse | Awards: 16 wins & 4 nominations | Runtime: 112 Min | Format: DvdRip, Color, NTSC, Avi | Language: English and German, with English and Spanish subtitles included in rar files (srts) | Country: Denmark

Europa is Lars von Trier's third theatrical feature film, released in 1991. It was released as Zentropa in North America in order to avoid confusion with the film Europa Europa (1990). Co-written by von Trier and Niels Vørsel, it tells the story of a young, idealistic American who hopes to "show some kindness" to the German people soon after the end of World War II. In US-occupied Germany, he takes on work as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway network, falls in love with a femme fatale, and becomes embroiled in a pro-Nazi terrorist conspiracy.

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Synopsis: On October of 1945, the American German descendant Leopold Kessler arrives in a post-war Frankfurt and his bitter Uncle Kessler gets a job for him in the Zentropa train line as a sleeping car conductor. While traveling in the train learning his profession, he sees the destructed occupied Germany and meets Katharina Hartmann, the daughter of the former powerful entrepreneur of transport business and owner of Zentropa, Max Hartmann. Leopold stays neutral between the allied forces and the Germans, and becomes aware that there is a terrorist group called "Werewolves" killing the sympathizers of the allied and conducting subversive actions against the allied forces. He falls in love for Katharina, and sooner she discloses that she was a "Werewolf". When Max commits suicide, Leopold is also pressed by the "Werewolves" and needs to take a position and a decision.

Europa employs an experimental style of cinema; combining largely black and white visuals with occasional intrusions of colour (two years before Schindler's List, which featured the same effect), having actors interact with rear-projected footage, and layering different images over one another to surreal effect. The film's characters, music, dialogue, and plot are self-consciously melodramatic and ironically imitative of film noir conventions.
The film features an international cast, including the French-American Jean-Marc Barr, German actors Barbara Sukowa and Udo Kier, expatriate American Eddie Constantine, and the Swedes Max von Sydow and Ernst-Hugo Järegård.

Awards and recognition
The film won three awards at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival (Best Artistic Contribution, Jury Prize, and Technical Grand Prize). Upon realizing that he had not won the Palme d'Or, von Trier gave the judges the finger and stormed out of the venue. Von Trier's production company, Zentropa Entertainments, is named after the sinister railway network featured in this film, which is in turn named after the real-life train company Mitropa.

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