Jean-Marc Barr
Leopold Kessler
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 |
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Runtime | 1h 53m |
Directors | Lars von Trier, Henning Bendtsen, Edward Kłosiński, Jean-Paul Meurisse, 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 | Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel |
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