Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany / Switzerland / Spain,
1991, 112 min
Directed by:
Lars von TrierComposer:
Joachim HolbekCast:
Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Erik Mørk, Jørgen Reenberg, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine, Max von Sydow (narrator) (more)VOD (1)
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"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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
European Film Awards
- 1992 - Barbara Sukowa (Best Actress)
- 1992 - Ernst-Hugo Järegård (Best Supporting Actor)
Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- 1992 - Lars von Trier (Best Danish Film)
- 1992 - Henning Bendtsen (Best Cinematography)
- 1992 - Henning Bahs (Best Production Design)
- 1992 - Hervé Schneid (Best Editing)
- 1992 - Joachim Holbek (Best Score)
- 1992 - Per Streit (Best Sound)
- 1992 - Hummer Højmark, Kaj Grönberg, Morten Jacobsen (Best Special Effects)
Cannes Film Festival
- 1991 - Lars von Trier (Jury Prize)
- 1991 - Lars von Trier (Grand Prix of the Superior Technical Commission)
- 1991 - Lars von Trier (Golden Palm - Official Competition)
Sitges Film Festival
- 1991 - Lars von Trier (Best Feature Length Film)
- 1991 - Edward Klosinski, Henning Bendtsen, Jean-Paul Meurisse (Best Cinematography)