Europa
"You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa . . ." So begins Max von Sydow's opening narration to Lars von Trier’s hypnotic Europa (known in the U.S. as Zentropa), a fever dream in which American pacifist Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) stumbles into a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways in a Kafkaesque 1945 postwar Frankfurt. With its gorgeous black-and-white and color imagery and meticulously recreated (if then nightmarishly deconstructed) costumes and sets, Europa is one of the great Danish filmmaker’s weirdest and most wonderful works, a runaway-train ride to an oddly futuristic past."You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa . . ." So begins Max von Sydow's opening narration to Lars von Trier’s hypnotic Europa (known in the U.S. as Zentropa), a fever dream in which Am... Read more
Starring Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Max von Sydow, Eddie Constantine, Jørgen Reenberg, Erik Mørk, Henning Jensen, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Leif Magnusson
Watch "Europa" from streaming services Kanopy, Mubi released in 1991. It's a drama and travel movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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