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Title:
Europa [DVD video]
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Edition:
Special edition double-disc set.
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2008.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 pages : 18 cm)
ISBN:
9781604651027
Abstract:
Leo Kessler, an American of German descent, visits Germany in 1945. He works as a night conductor on the Zentropa Railway Line, owned by a Nazi sympathizer. Leo attempts to remain neutral to the ongoing purging of loyalists by the Allied forces, but he falls in love with the railway magnate's daughter.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.
Wide screen (2.35:1).
Restored high-definition digital transfer.
Special features: optional Danish audio commentary (with optional English subtitles) with director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen; documentary Making of Europa (1991); original theatrical trailer; Trier's element, a documentary featuring an interview with von Trier as well as footage from Europa's set and its Cannes premiere and press conference; Anecdotes from Europa, a short documentary featuring interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Baar, Aalbaek Jensen, assistant director Tomas Gislason, co-writer Niels Vorsel, and prop master Peter Grant; additional interviews; booklet with essay by critic Howard Hampton.
Title from end credits.
Performers:
Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Barbara Sukowa, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Erik Mørk, Jørgen Reenberg, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine ; narrator, Max Von Sydow.
Contents:
Special features: disc 1. New, restored high-definition digital transfer ; Danish audio commentary with director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen ; "The making of 'Europa'" documentary ; original theatrical trailer ; new and improved English subtitle translation -- disc 2. "Trier's Element" a documentary featuring an interview with von Trier as well as footage from Europa's set and its Cannes premiere and press conference ; "Anecdotes from 'Europa'" a short documentary featuring interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Baar, Aalbaek Jensen, assistant director Tomas Gislason, co-writer Niels Vorsel, and prop master Peter Grant ; Interviews from 2005 with cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, composer Joachim Holbek, costume designer Manon Rasmussen, film school teacher Mogens Rukov, Gislason, Aalbeak Jensen, Grant, actor Michael Simpson, production manger Per Arman, and actor Old Ernst ; A 2005 conversation with von Trier in which he discussed the "Europa trilogy" ; "Eruope -- The Faecal location" (2005) a short film by Gislason.
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (2.35:1), Dolby Digital 2.1 audio.
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Geographic Term:
Language:
German
Additional Language:
In English or German with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
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Added Uniform Title:
Europa (Motion picture : 1991)
