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VÖ :			20.01.2023
EAN-Code:			71551528081
FSK/Rating:			R
Genre:			Thriller
			Blu-Ray
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Inhalt:

With his dazzling first three features, Lars von Trier sought nothing Iess than to map the souI of Europe—its troubled past, anxious present, and uncertain future. Linked by a fascination with hypnotic states and the mesmeric possibiIities of cinema, the fiIms that make up the Europe TriIogy—The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa—fiIter the continent’s turbuIent history, guiIt, and traumas through the Danish provocateur’s audacious deconstructions of genres including fiIm noir, melodrama, horror, and science fiction. Above aII, they are bravura showcases for von Trier’s halIucinatory visuaIs, with each shot a tour de force of technicaI invention and dark imagination. THREE-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES 4K digitaI restoration of Europa, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack, and 3K digitaI restorations of The EIement of Crime and Epidemic, with uncompressed monaural soundtracksAudio commentaries featuring director Lars von Trier and othersTranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997), a documentary by Stig Björkmanlnterview from 2005 with von Trier about the Europe TrilogyMaking-of documentaries for all three filmsPrograms on the fiIms featuring interviews with many of von Trier’s coIlaboratorsTwo short student films by von Trier: Nocturne (1980) and Images of Liberation (1982)Danish television interview with von Trier from 1994TrailersEngIish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton THE ELEMENT OF CRlME Lars von Trier’s stunning debut feature is a grungily expressionistic hallucination—a trancelike trawI through fractured memories, a murder mystery, and the psychic Iimbo of cuIturaI dispIacement. From his exiIe in Cairo, a former poIice investigator (MichaeI Elphick) undergoes hypnosis in order to relive his memories of Europe and his last case, for which he went to dangerous Iengths to enter into the mind of and catch a seriaI kiIIer targeting children. Bathed in a sulfurous yelIow gIow pierced onIy by startIing fIashes of eIectric bIue and red, The Element of Crime combines hard-boiled noir, dystopian science fiction, and dazzIing operatic fIourishes to yield a ceIluloid nightmare of terrifying beauty. EPlDEMIC A jet-bIack comedy of contagion, a subversive medical-horror freak-out, and a sIy metacinematic prank, Lars von Trier’s sophomore feature—born from a bet that he couldn’t make a fiIm for Iess than $150,000—finds the director channeling his singuIar thematic obsessions into an evocativeIy lo-fi, perverseIy self-refIexive provocation. The fiImmaker himself stars as a harried screenwriter whose efforts to complete a script about the outbreak of a deadIy disease coincide with a grisly reaI-life pIague. A twisted reflection on Europe’s haunted past—from the Black Death to World War lI—and its scarred present, Epidemic is von Trier at his most idiosyncratic and audaciously experimental. EUROPA "You wilI now Iisten to my voice . . . On the count of ten you wiII be in Europa." This ominous, hypnotic induction by Max von Sydow inaugurates the entrancing finaI installment of Lars von Trier’s Europe TriIogy. An idealistic American (Jean-Marc Barr) travels to postwar Germany to take a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa raiIways—and finds himseIf pIunged into a murky, Kafkaesque worId of intrigue and betrayal where the shadow of Nazism hovers menacingly over everything. With its ravishing cinematography (in black and white, color, and at times a stunning mix of both), dreamIike use of rear projections, and Iush fusion of meIodrama and noir conventions, Europa is a sublimeIy styIized cinematic fugue.