The highly stylized ZENTROPA returns to what was once a classic setting for intrigue--a first-class sleeping compartment on a train crossing postwar occupied Germany. Using rear projection, superimposition and scenes that mix color with b&w, director and co-screenwriter Lars Von Trier
has fashioned an atmospheric if convoluted drama peopled with devious schemers, robotic officials and anonymous grey masses.
A narrator (Max von Sydow) introduces us to Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr), an American of sufficient Germanic background to speak the language. Leopold's uncle (Ernst-Hugo Jaregard) gets him a job as a sleeper-coach attendant with the Zentropa railway. A p...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
114 mins