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Directed by: Lars von Trier
Featuring: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Erik Mørk, Jørgen Reenberg, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine, Max von Sydow
“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.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Surround 2.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Documentary, Interview, Short Film, Booklet, Theatrical Trailer
- Audio commentary featuring director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen (in Danish, with English subtitles)
- The Making of “Europa” (1991), a documentary following the film from storyboarding to production
- Trier’s Element (1991), a documentary featuring an interview with Lars 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
- From Dreyer to von Trier: interview with director of photography Henning Bendtsen
- The Emotional Music Script: Interview with composer Joachim Holbek
- 2005 interviews with cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, composer Per Arman, 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
- Original theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Howard Hampton
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Release Credits
Producer: Kate Elmore
Artwork: Jason Hardy
Release Notes on Restoration
Europa
Europa is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. This new high-definition digital transfer was created from the original camera negative, which was scanned in 2K resolution on an ARRISCAN Film Scanner with Kodak DIGITAL ICE Technology. It was color corrected on Autodesk's Lustre system. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, and scratches were removed using Pixel Farm's PFClean and the MTI Digital Restoration System.
The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the 35mm LT/RT optical track, and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle.
The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the 35mm LT/RT optical track, and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle.