Europa [videorecording] / a Janus Films ; Danish-Fench-German-Swedish coproduction, produced by Gunnar Obel & Nordisk Film & TV A/S ... [et al.] ; producers, Peter Aalbaek Jensen, Bo Christensen ; written by Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel ; directed by Lars von Trier ; screenplay, Lars Von Trier & Niels Vorsel.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Special ed. ; Widescreen ed.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 p. : 18 cm.)
Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Barbara Sukowa, Leopold Kessler, Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Erik Mork, Jorgen Reenberg, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine. Videodisc release of the 1991 motion picture. Special features: 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 ; 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.
Summary:
Leo Kessler, an American of German descent, visits Germany in 1945. He works as a night conductor on the Zentropa Railway Line, owned by a Nazi sympathizer. Leo attempts to remain neutral to the ongoing purguing of loyalists by the Allied forces, but he falls in love with the railway magnate's daughter.
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