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List Price: $39.95Amazon.com's Price: $29.99 You Save: $9.96 (25%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0715515034029
Format: Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Label: Criterion Collection
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 09, 2008
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 4480
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: 1991
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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. With its gorgeous black-and-white and color imagery and meticulously recreated (if then nightmarishly deconstructed) costumes and sets, Europa is one of the great Danish filmmaker s weirdest and most wonderful works, a runaway train ride to an oddly futuristic past.
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary featuring director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen (in Danish)
The Making of Europa (1991), a documentary following the film from storyboarding to production
Trier s Element (1991), a documentary featuring an interview with von Trier, and footage from the set and Europa s Cannes premiere and press conference
Anecdotes from Europa (2005), a short documentary featuring interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Barr, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, assistant director Tómas Gislason, co-writer Niels Vørsel, and prop master Peter Grant
2005 interviews with cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, composer Joachim Holbek, costume designer Manon Rasmussen, film-school teacher Mogens Rukov, editor/director Tómas Gislason, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, art director Peter Grant, actor Michael Simpson, production manager Per Arman, actor Ole Ernst
A conversation with Lars von Trier from 2005, in which the director speaks about the Europa trilogy
Europa The Faecal Location (2005), a short film by Gislason
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Howard Hampton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Von Trier's Weird Nightmare on the Zentropa Railway.
"You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa."
While perhaps best known for his Dogme 95 films Breaking the Waves (1996), The Idiots (Idioterne) (1998), and Dancer in the Dark (2000), Academy Award-nominated Danish film director, Lars von Trier, is also celebrated for his "Europe trilogy" of films: The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens element) (1984), Epidemic (1987), and Europa (1991) (originally released as Zentropa in the U.S. to avoid marketing ... Read More
Rating: - Thank You Criterion!!!
I wrote a review on IMDB of some Criterion DVD that certainly didn't deserve the Criterion treatment, asking "How on earth could they release a Criterion disc of the Bruce Willis movie "Armageddon" before they put Zentropa (and others; Magnificent Ambersons... ahem!) out?" My prayers have been answered.
I will start building my shrine to this DVD now, so it's ready for December. ha ha... No, it's not the greatest movie ever made, and its pacing is quite ponderous. It's also one of the ... Read More
Rating: - Finally released in America.
This is finally being released in the U.S. and I couldn't be more elated! All I've had of this movie up till now has been a R3 version ( Which DID carry it's original title "Europa" but my computer will only play a limited number of times). I'm even happier still that it's getting "the Criterion treatment". This is von Trier's trippiest experiment. If you liked "The Kingdom" this is that on a train - Okay, maybe not. Ya' just gotta' see it. Trier never did anything before or after like this movie. ... Read More
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