Europa

Denmark, Spain, 1991

Drama, History, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

American pacifist (and naive) Leopold Kessler stumbles into a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways in a Kafkaesque 1945 postwar Frankfurt, where he gets caught in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers. A runaway-train ride to an oddly futuristic past.

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Europa Directed by Lars von Trier

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Awards & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival

1991 | 3 wins including: Best Artistic Contribution

1991 | Nominee: Palme d'Or

International Film Festival Rotterdam

1992

São Paulo International Film Festival

2018

European Film Awards

1992 | 2 nominations including: European Actress of the Year

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Cast & Crew

Critics reviews

[Zentropa] addresses so many fundamental contemporary questions about postmodernism, language, colonialism, the Common Market, coproduction, the future of European cinema, and our collective memory of World War II that one may feel a mite churlish pointing out that its technique ultimately overwhelms the themes and characters. After all, exercices de styleworthy of the name are not exactly plentiful these days, and Zentropa is an especially dazzling example…

Jonathan Rosenbaum

July 03, 1992

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