Europa

Name: Europa
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 27 Jun 1991
Rating: 7.34
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Erik Mørk

A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.

Year: 1991

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Studio: Gérard Mital Productions, Nordisk Film Denmark, WMG Film, Svenska Filminstitutet, UGC

Director: Lars von Trier

Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Erik Mørk, Jørgen Reenberg

Crew: Lars von Trier (Screenplay), Lars von Trier (Director), Hervé Schneid (Editor), Henning Bendtsen (Director of Photography), Niels Vørsel (Screenplay), Simone Grau Roney (Assistant Property Master)

Runtime: 113 minutes

Release: Jun 27, 1991

IMDb: 7.34/10 by 327 users

Popularity: 2

Country: Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden

Language: Deutsch, Latin, English

Budget: 0

Revenue: 1,007,976

Keyword : chess, allies, munich, germany, hypnosis, bridge, employee, frankfurt am main, germany, travel, priest, post world war ii, 1940s

Comment

Charles Tatum 2023, Jun 09

Goodtropa. One thing you can say about this film is you have never seen anything like it before. Most chilling is the soundtrack, although von Trier does over-direct once in a while. I did appreciate this more than his "Breaking the Waves."