Europa

Director: Lars Von Trier

1991 / 108min / DCP

Also known as Zentropa, by any name von Trier’s film is a technical tour de force, its use of superimpositions and rear projection in layered widescreen compositions and expressionistic set design making for an orgy of formal flair unlike most anything else in cinema. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, idealistic young German American Leo Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr), who’s taken a job in US-occupied Deutschland as a conductor for the Zentropa railway company, finds himself caught up with a mysterious woman (Barbara Sukowa), “Werwolf” terrorists not reconciled to the postwar order, and a struggle for the future of a war-torn nation.

Distributor: MUBI

Part of Hotel Europa