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“You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa.” 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 over everything. With its ravishing cinematography (in black and white, color, and at times a stunning mix of both), dreamlike use of rear projections, and lush fusion of melodrama and noir conventions, Europa is a sublimely stylized cinematic fugue.

Special Features:

• Audio commentaries featuring von Trier, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, and actors Jean-Marc Barr and Udo Kier
• Making-of documentary from 1991
• Documentary from 1991 featuring an interview with von Trier and footage from the set as well as the film’s Cannes premiere and press conference
• Interview from 2005 with von Trier about the Europe Trilogy
• Programs featuring interviews with film scholar Peter Schepelern and many of von Trier’s collaborators
• Europa - A Faecal Location (2005) a short film by Gislason
• Trailer
• English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing