Europa 1991

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

7.341 / 10   290 vote(s)
R
Crime Drama Thriller

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.

Release Date 1991-06-27
Runtime 1h 53m
Directors Henning Bendtsen, Lars von Trier, Jean-Paul Meurisse, Edward Kłosiński, Tómas Gislason, Egon Haase, Elizabeth Frey Harne, Tom Hedegaard, Janusz Petelski
Producers Bo Christensen, Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Philippe Bober, François Duplat, Patrick Godeau, Gérard Mital, Gunnar Obel
Writers Niels Vørsel, Lars von Trier

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."

Charles Tatum