| Audio | 2.0 Dolby Digital |
| Subtitles | English |
| Languages | English and German |
| Aspect Ratio | 2.35:1 |
| Color | Black & White / Color |
| Barcode | 7-15515-03402-9 |
| Criterion Collection Spine # | 454 |
| Distributor | The Criterion Collection |
| Licensor | Trust Film Sales |
| Notes | Criterion Collection DVD edition “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 its 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. SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET: New, restored high-definition digital transfer Audio commentary featuring director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen (in Danish, with English subtitles) The Making of “Europa” (1991), a documentary following the film from storyboarding to production Trier’s Element (1991), a documentary featuring an interview with von Trier, and footage from the set and Europa’s Cannes premiere and press conference Anecdotes from Europa (2005), a short documentary featuring interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Barr, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, assistant director Tómas Gislason, co-writer Niels Vørsel, and prop master Peter Grant 2005 interviews with cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, composer Joachim Holbek, costume designer Manon Rasmussen, film-school teacher Mogens Rukov, editor/director Tómas Gislason, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, art director Peter Grant, actor Michael Simpson, production manager Per Arman, actor Ole Ernst A conversation with Lars von Trier from 2005, in which the director speaks about the “Europa” trilogy Europa—The Faecal Location (2005), a short film by Gislason New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Howard Hampton New cover by Jason Hardy |
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