Europa(Movie, 1991)

Name: Europa
Genre: Drama
Released: 1991
Duration: T01:53:00
Rating: 3.7

| 1h 53min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 123 votes)

Europa (known as Zentropa in North America) is a 1991 experimental psychological drama period film directed and co-written by Lars von Trier. The film is an international co-production between Denmark and five other European countries, it is von Trier's third theatrical feature film, and the third and final installment in his Europa trilogy, following The Element of Crime (1984) and Epidemic (1987). The film features an international ensemble cast, including Germans Barbara Sukowa and Udo Kier, expatriate American Eddie Constantine, and Swedes Max von Sydow and Ernst-Hugo Järegård. This was German-born French-American ... ()

Part of the Europa Trilogy

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Awards & Nominations for Europa

Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film Award nominated for: European Film Award for Best Actress nominated for: European Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

About Europa

Postwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner's daughter, and they fall in love, his life intersects with the dark and violent path of a mysterious organization opposed to the United States army military occupation.

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Trailer for Europa + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Europa (1991)(Trailer, 2:34)

Additional Information

Production countries: Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden

Plays in: Germany

Made by: Nordisk Film, Det Danske Filminstitut, Euroimages Fund of the Council of Europe, WMG Film, Gérard Mital Productions, PCC

Original language: German (DE)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 22 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/22/1992 (World premiere: 06/27/1991)

Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Eddie Constantine, Erik Mørk, Max von Sydow, Baard Owe, Jørgen Reenberg, Michael Simpson, Claus Flygare, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Anne Werner Thomsen, Erno Müller, Holger Perfort, Lars von Trier, Benny Poulsen, Vera Gebuhr, Hardy Rafn, Else Petersen, Cæcilia Holbek Trier, Henning Jensen, János Herskó, Leif Magnusson, Jesper Birch, David Bateson

Director: Lars von Trier

Producer: Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Bo Christensen

Screenwriter: Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel

Film Editor: Hervé Schneid

Director of Photography: Edward Kłosiński, Henning Bendtsen, Jean-Paul Meurisse

Composer: Joachim Holbek

Production Designer: Andrzej Borecki

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"战后余生"

"欧罗巴"

"Zentropa"

Keywords: travel, munich, germany, post world war ii, employee, bridge, priest, hypnosis, frankfurt, model train set, 1940s, allies, chess

3 movies in the Europa Trilogy

1984 The Element of Crime ("Forbrydelsens element")

1987 Epidemic

1991 Europa

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