Search - Europa [Widescreen] [Criterion Collection] on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 12/09/2008 Format: DVD - Black and White,Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Restored/Remastered Audio Tracks: English, German Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 1 hrs 47 mins Studio: Criterion Members Wishing: 19 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama See Also: Zentropa

Europa (retitled Zentropa for the American release) is an hallucinatory Danish film set in postwar Germany. Jean-Marc Barr plays a young German who aspires for a job as a street conductor. But this is no mere "Joe Job;" Barr's adventures on the line are designed as a metaphor for the emergence of the "New Europe" following the war. Barbara Sukowa costars as the daughter of a railroad magnate--and possible Nazi sympathizer. Many of the special-effects sequences are computer enhanced, but even the "live" scenes have an unsettling, surreal quality to them (colors changing abruptly, backgrounds shifting without warning, etc.) This experimental film left some viewers confused, which may be why English-language prints of Zentropa are narrated by Max Von Sydow. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Jean-Marc Barr - Leopold Kessler
Barbara Sukowa - Katharina Hartmann
Udo Kier - Lawrence Hartmann
Erik Mork - Father Jaregard