Europa [videorecording] / producers, Peter Aalbaek Jensen, Bo Christensen ; written by Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel ; directed by Lars von Trier.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC1784D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: German, English Summary language: English Original language: German Series: Criterion collection ; 454Publication details: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2008.Edition: Special ed. ; Widescreen edDescription: 2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1604651024
- 9781604651027
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Main Library | DVD | WORLD Europa | Checked out | 05/21/2024 | 33111005474305 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Europa (retitled Zentropa for the American release) is an hallucinatory Danish film set in postwar Germany. Jean-Marc Barr plays a young German who aspires for a job as a street conductor. But this is no mere "Joe Job;" Barr's adventures on the line are designed as a metaphor for the emergence of the "New Europe" following the war. Barbara Sukowa costars as the daughter of a railroad magnate--and possible Nazi sympathizer. Many of the special-effects sequences are computer enhanced, but even the "live" scenes have an unsettling, surreal quality to them (colors changing abruptly, backgrounds shifting without warning, etc.) This experimental film left some viewers confused, which may be why English-language prints of Zentropa are narrated by Max Von Sydow. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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.
Title from container.
Videodisc release of the 1991 motion picture.
Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Leopold Kessler, Katharina Hartman.
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.
DVD.
German or English dialogue; English subtitles; subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.