Europa (Criterion Collection)

"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 it's 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.

Director: Lars von Trier
Producer: Bo Christensen
Producer: François Duplat
Producer: Gunnar Obel
Producer: Patrick Godeau
Producer: Peter Aalb k Jensen
Actor: Jean-Marc Barr
Actor: Barbara Sukowa
Actor: Udo Kier
Actor: Ernst-Hugo Jaregard
Actor: Erik Mork
Actor: Anne Werner Thomsen
Actor: Baard Owe
Actor: Claus Flygare
Actor: Else Petersen
Actor: Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Actor: Holger Perfort
Actor: János Herskó
Actor: Leif Magnusson
Actor: Vera Gebuhr
Actor: Jorgen Reenberg
Actor: Henning Jensen
Actor: Eddie Constantine
Actor: Lars von Trier
Actor: Max von Sydow