Europa (film)
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85% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama Duration Language English
German | 7.7/10 IMDb Director Lars von Trier Film series Europa trilogy Country Denmark
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Poland
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Release date 12 May 1991 (1991-05-12) (Cannes)
22 June 1991 (1991-06-22) (Germany)
16 August 1991 (1991-08-16) (Denmark) Writer Lars von Trier, Niels Vorsel Awards Cannes Jury Prize, Bodil Award for Best Danish Film Cast Jean-Marc Barr (Leopold Kessler), Barbara Sukowa (Katharina Hartmann), Udo Kier (Lawrence Hartmann), Ernst-Hugo Järegård (Uncle Kessler), Max von Sydow , Erik Mørk Similar movies Saving Private Ryan , The Book Thief , Max Manus: Man of War , The Thin Red Line , The Train , When Trumpets Fade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Europa (known as Zentropa in North America) is a 1991 Danish art drama film directed by Lars von Trier. It is von Trier's third theatrical feature film and the final film in his Europa trilogy following The Element of Crime (1984) and Epidemic (1987).
Contents
- Europa europa official trailer 1 andr wilms movie 1990 hd
- Europa trailer
- Plot
- Style
- Production
- Release
- Critical reception
- Accolades
- Home media
- References
The film features an international cast, including the French-American Jean-Marc Barr, Germans Barbara Sukowa and Udo Kier, expatriate American Eddie Constantine, and the Swedes Max von Sydow and Ernst-Hugo Järegård.
Europa was influenced by Franz Kafka's Amerika, and the title was chosen "as an echo" of that novel.
Europa trailer
Plot
A young, idealistic American 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.
Style
Europa employs an experimental style of cinema, combining largely black and white visuals with occasional intrusions of colour having actors interact with rear-projected footage, and layering different images over one another to surreal effect. The voice-over narration uses an unconventional second-person narrative imitative of a hypnotist (e.g. "On the count of ten, you will be in Europa.").
The film's characters, music, dialogue, and plot are self-consciously melodramatic and ironically imitative of film noir conventions.
Production
The film was shot throughout Poland (Chojna Cathedral (Marienkirche) and the Chojna Roundhouse) and in Denmark (Nordisk Film studios, Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Dansk Hydraulisk Institut)
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.
Release
Europa was released as Zentropa in North America to avoid confusion with Europa Europa (1990).
Critical reception
The film received largely positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 85% score based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10.
Accolades
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.
Home media
The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD in 2008. The package contained several documentaries on the film and an audio commentary from von Trier.
References
Europa (film) WikipediaEuropa (film) IMDbEuropa (film) Rotten TomatoesEuropa (film) themoviedb.org