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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 FriðrikssonFeatureGerman-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.
- (23K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Lars von Trier
- 1991-06-27
Zentropa is an ambitious avant garde Danish film directed by Lars Von Trier. Set in post-World War II Germany, the convoluted story revolves around an American pacifist who lands a job as a sleeping-car porter in the employ of Zentropa Railways.
May 15, 2012 · After 20 years, the iconic Danish production outfit Zentropa is going stronger than ever, with historical drama A Royal Affair packing out Danish cinemas and Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt in ...
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