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Europa

World War II had finished, but it left indelible marks.

7.3 / 10

113 minutes

1991-06-27

German

DK

Actors :

Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Erik Mørk, Jørgen Reenberg, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine, Max von Sydow, Benny Poulsen, Erno Müller, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Holger Perfort, Anne Werner Thomsen, Hardy Rafn

Description

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.

Reviews

Charles Tatum

Charles Tatum

6/9/2023, 12:41:07 PM

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."