Europa (zentropa)

This drama film tells of Leopold, a young American of German descent, , whose uncle gets him a job as a night train conductor in post WWII Germany. While traveling in the train all over Germany, he realizes that the company he works for produced the very trains that transported the Jews to their deaths in the Nazi death camps. Zentropa is the third film of the Danish film director Lars von Trier in a trilogy that explores Europe on the verge of waking up from WWII. The two preceding films were: “The Element of Crime” (1984) and “Epidemic” (1987). Most of the film that was shot in black and white won the Jury Prize as well as the Technical Grand Prize and best Artistic Contribution at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.