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- Zentropa, or Zentropa Entertainments, is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. Zentropa is named after the train company Zentropa in the film Europa (1991), which started the collaboration between von Trier and Jensen.
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Jul 3, 1992 · “Zentropa” is a strange, haunting, labyrinthine film about a naive American in Germany just after the end of World War II. The American, named Leo, doesn’t quite know what he’s doing there; he has come to take a role in rebuilding the country because, he explains, it’s about time Germany was shown some kindness.
A young American of German descent, Leopold Kessler, comes to Germany and gets a job as a train conductor for the railway company Zentropa with his uncle. Leopold sees Germany from the perspective of moving trains, train stations or dormitories.
Zentropa, or Zentropa Entertainments, is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen. [1] Zentropa is named after the train company Zentropa in the film Europa (1991), which started the collaboration between von Trier and Jensen.
WorkYearDirectorNotes1993Jørgen LethDocumentary1993Susanne BierFeaturePretty Boy (1993 film) [da]1993Carsten SønderFeature1994Friðrik Þór FriðrikssonFeatureEuropa. An American (Jean-Marc Barr) gets caught in a plot to blow up a train for the woman (Barbara Sukowa) he loves in 1945 Germany. The German moral tragedy of the Nazi era is...
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Jun 22, 2022 · It’s the story of a naive young American dork named Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr, THE BIG BLUE) who moves to Germany right after WWII and gets hooked up for a job working with his German uncle (Ernst-Hugo Alfred Järegård, who would soon play Carl Jung on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway ...
German-American pacifist Leopold travels to Germany in 1945 to help in the postwar rebuilding. He finds work as a sleeping-car conductor for a giant railway system called Zentropa and finds himself romancing the mysterious Katharina, who draws the hapless Leopold into an intrigue involving Nazi sympathizers.
Europa: Directed by Lars von Trier. With Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård. Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
