Europa
Europa
Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany / Switzerland / Spain,
1991, 112 min
Directed by:
Lars von TrierComposer:
Joachim HolbekCast:
Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Erik Mørk, Jørgen Reenberg, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine, Max von Sydow (narrator) (more)Plots(1)
"You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa . . ." So begins Max von Sydow’s opening narration to Lars von Trier’s hypnotic Europa (known in the U.S. as Zentropa), a fever dream in which American pacifist Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) stumbles into a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways in a Kafkaesque 1945 postwar Frankfurt. (official distributor synopsis)
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