Europa
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Cannes Film Festival — Best Artistic Contribution Bodil Awards — Best Film Robert Festival — Best Film |
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"The most dazzling visual experience since Wim Wenders' 'Wings of Desire'" — The Washington Post
Young Leo Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) arrives in post-WW2 Germany in the naïve hope of helping to rebuild the country. He gets a job on the railway, and falls for Katharina (Barbara Sukowa), heiress to an industrialist's fortune, only to discover he's ensnared himself among pro-Nazi saboteurs, and that his fate is sealed if he doesn't act fast. Director Lars von Trier fashions an astonishing visual style that works on viewers like a dream, a landmark cinematic experience.
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Europa is Lars von Trier's third theatrical feature film, released in 1991. It was released as Zentropa in North America in order to avoid confusion with the film Europa Europa (1990). Co-written by von Trier and Niels Vørsel, it tells the story of a young, idealistic American who hopes to "show some kindness" to the German people soon after the end of World War II. In US-occupied Germany, he takes on work as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway network, falls in love with a femme fatale, and becomes embroiled in a pro-Nazi terrorist conspiracy.
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