Jean-Marc Barr
Leopold Kessler
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Plot. In the U.S.-occupied zone of Germany after the end of World War II, the entire population is under close surveillance. 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 ...
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.
Europa. “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.
Europa Europa: Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With Marco Hofschneider, André Wilms, Ashley Wanninger, Klaus Abramowsky. A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
An American, Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) goes to post-war Germany in 1945 to work as a railroad conductor for the Zentropa Rail Line instead of going into the Army because he feels its a more valuable thing to do for the state of the world.
What stands out. A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.
Europa. 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 obscured by the...
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