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The Europa trilogy is an experimental film trilogy created by Danish writers Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel, comprising his three feature films The Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987) and Europa (1991). Each films set in different locations of Europe, and are not a narrative trilogy but rather are linked by common themes and stylistic ...
1987. A jet-black comedy of contagion, a subversive medical-horror freak-out, and a sly metacinematic prank, Lars von Trier’s sophomore feature—born from a bet that he couldn’t make a film for less than $150,000—finds the director channeling his singular thematic obsessions into an evocatively lo-fi, perversely self-reflexive provocation.
3. Europa (1991) R | 112 min | Drama, Thriller. Just after W.W.II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him. Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård.
Jan 17, 2023 · Linked by a fascination with hypnotic states and the mesmeric possibilities of cinema, the films that make up the Europe Trilogy— The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa —filter the continent’s turbulent history, guilt, and traumas through the Danish provocateur’s audacious deconstructions of genres including film noir, melodrama, horror, and science fiction. Above all, they are ...
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Jan 20, 2023 · The Criterion Collection has finally managed to collect director Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy together in one three-disc set. Presented across three dual-layer discs are The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa, each film given a 1080p/24hz high-definition encode and presented in their respective aspect ratios of 1.85:1, 1.66:1 and 2.39:1.
Jan 19, 2023 · The film’s original trailer and the 44-minute Trier’s Element then close off the disc, the latter a discussion with the director filmed in 1991 around the time of Europa’s release. Things start with the trilogy, only for the focus to move precisely to Europa, where he explains how he wanted to make a more commercial/accessible film. He ...
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Max von Sydow’s ominous, hypnotic induction inaugurates the entrancing final installment of Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy. An idealistic American (Jean-Marc Barr) travels to postwar Germany to take a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways—and finds himself plunged into a murky, Kafkaesque world of intrigue and betrayal where the shadow of Nazism hovers menacingly ...
