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Europa [videorecording (DVD)].

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The Criterion Collection, c2008.

Terrorism -- Drama.

Nazis -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 454.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Zentropa [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

2 videodiscs (107 min.) : Dolby digital stereo. sd., b&w & col. ; 12 cm.

Videodisc release of the 1991 motion picture.

Special features : Disc 1: New, restored high-definition digital transfer ; Danish audio commentary with director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen ; original theatrical trailer ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; Disc 2: Trier's Element: a documentary featuring an interview with von Trier as well as footage from Europa's set and its Cannes premiere and press conference ; Anecdotes from Europa: a short documentary featuring interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Baar, Aalbaek Jensen, assistant director Tomas Gislason, co-writer Niels Vorsel, and prop master Peter Grant ; additional interviews ; booklet with essay by critic Howard Hampton.

2.35:1 aspect ratio enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs.

"A Danish, French, German, Swedish co-production"--Container.

In English and German with optional English subtitles.

Producers, Peter Aalbaek Jensen, Bo Christensen ; written by Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel ; directed by Lars von Trier.

Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Erik Mørk, Jørgen Reenberg, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine and Max von Sydow as narrator.

"'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. With its gorgeous black-and-white and color imagery and meticulously recreated (if then nightmarishly deconstructed) costumes and sets, Europa is one of the great Danish filmmaker's weirdest and most wonderful works, a runaway train ride to an oddly futuristic past.

Surrealist films

Trier, Lars von, 1956-

Barr, Jean-Marc, 1960-

Sukowa, Barbara, 1950-

Sydow, Max von, 1929-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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