Europa (film)
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| Directed by | Lars von Trier |
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| Narrated by | Max von Sydow |
| Music by | Joachim Holbek |
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| Edited by | Hervé Schneid |
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| Distributed by | Nordisk Film Biografdistribution |
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114 minutes |
| Country | Spain Denmark Sweden France Germany Switzerland |
| Language | English German |
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| Box office | $1 million |
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).
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.
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.
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.").
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