Zentropa (Criterion) DVD

• 2.0 Dolby Digital (English)
• 2.0 Dolby Digital (German)

Disc One:

• New, restored high-definition digital transer
• Danish audio commentary with director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbęk Jensen
• The Making of "Europa" (1991), a documentary following the film from storyboarding to production
• Original theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation

Disc Two:

• Trier's Element (1991), a documentary featuring an interview with von Trier a swell as footage from Europa's set and its Cannes premiere and press conference
• Anecdotes form "Europa" (2005), a short documentary featuring interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Barr, Aalbęk Jensen, assistant director Tómas Gislason, co-worker Niels Vorsel, and prop master Peter Grant
• Interviews from 2005 with cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, composer Joachim Holbek, costume designer Manon Rasmussen, film school teacher Mogens Rukov, Gislason, Aalbęk Jensen, Grant, actor Michael Simpson, production manager Per Arman, and actor Ole Ernst
• A 2005 conversation with von Trier in which he discusses the "Europa Trilogy"
• Europa: The Faecal Location (2005), a short film by Gislason

Director: Lars von Trier
Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Erik Mork

"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.