《欧洲特快车》(Europa)是丹麦导演拉斯·冯·提尔在1991年的电影作品,也是「欧洲三部曲」的最后一部电影。该片演员来自许多国家,包括法裔美籍、德国、美国、瑞典。本片受到丹麦童书《火车》(Toget)和法兰兹·卡夫卡的《美国》(Amerika)的影响,尤其后者更影响了片名。 电影里火车公司「参卓帕」(Zentropa)后来也成为拉斯·冯·提尔在丹麦成立的电影公司名称,这是模仿德国铁路的卧铺及餐饮服务公司米托帕(Mitropa)。 剧情 1945年二次大战结束后,德裔美国青年李欧波·凯斯勒决定返回仍然被美军占领的德国,并在叔叔的帮助下在参卓帕铁路担任卧铺列车的见习车掌,并与参卓帕老板麦斯·哈特门的女儿凯萨琳娜·哈特门坠入情网,而后李欧波被迫卷入亲纳粹恐怖分子的攻击行动当中。 Europa (1991) is a film directed by Lars von Trier. It is von Trier's third theatrical feature film and was the final film in his Europa trilogy following The Element of Crime (1984) and Epidemic (1987). Europa was released as Zentropa in North America to avoid confusion with Europa Europa (1990). Co-written by von Trier and Niels Vørsel, it tells the story of a young, idealistic American who hopes to "show some kindness" to the German people soon after the end of World War II. In US-occupied Germany, he takes on work as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway network, falls in love with a femme fatale, and becomes embroiled in a pro-Nazi terrorist conspiracy. The film features an international cast, including the French-American Jean-Marc Barr, Germans Barbara Sukowa and Udo Kier, expatriate American Eddie Constantine, and the Swedes Max von Sydow and Ernst-Hugo Järegård. Europa was influenced by Franz Kafka's Amerika, and the name of the film was chosen "as an echo" of that novel.