Europa

Jun 27, 1991

1h 53m

★ 7.3

World War II had finished, but it left indelible marks.

Overview

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.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Gérard Mital Productions

Nordisk Film Denmark

WMG Film

Svenska Filminstitutet

UGC

Europa Trailers

Cast

Leopold Kessler

Jean-Marc Barr

Katharina Hartmann

Barbara Sukowa

Lawrence Hartmann

Udo Kier

Uncle Kessler

Ernst-Hugo Järegård

Pater

Erik Mørk

Max Hartmann

Jørgen Reenberg

Siggy

Henning Jensen

Colonel Harris

Eddie Constantine

Narrator (voice)

Max von Sydow

Steleman

Benny Poulsen

Seifert

Erno Müller

Inspector

Dietrich Kuhlbrodt

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