makes the necessary preparations as ordered, but then discover Katharina, demands the same to him. He tries to tell an American officer about the bomb, but circumstances prevent him from doing so. At this time, Leopold's superiors are trying to test his professional suitability. In desperation, he plants the bomb and sets the clockwork. However, pity for the people makes Leopold turn off the explosives. In the meantime, the occupation authorities uncover the Werwolf cell. Leopold sees Katharina in handcuffs. She convinces him that it was he who made her mistake, because there are no innocent people in Germany, since during the war years its citizens either killed or betrayed. Leopold is driven to despair, he stops the train to prevent them from leaving, but they still aboard again, he decides to detonate the explosives. As a result, the train explodes on the bridge as intended, crashes into the river and eventually killed several people including his uncle and Katharina in a sunken train car. It is later revealed Leopold's body floats on the river, approaching death by drowning. Cast Style Europa employs an experimental style of cinema, combining largely black and white visuals with occasional intrusions of colour, having actors interact with rear-projected footage, and layering different images over one another to surreal effect. The voice-over narration uses an unconventional second-person narrative imitative of a hypnotist. The film's characters, music, dialogue, and plot are self-consciously melodramatic and ironically imitative of film noir conventions. Morando Morandini writes: "More than the characters, what counts is the technical-formalistic apparatus: color contrasted with black and white, superimpositions, distorting lenses, dynamic camera, expressionistic-style set designs. Anti-German in substance, it is profoundly German in form". Production The film was shot throughout Poland (Chojna Cathedral (Marienkirche) and the Chojna Roundhouse) and in Denmark (Nordisk Film studios, Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Dansk Hydraulisk Institut). The cathedral where the main characters are getting married is that of Chojna, whose roof was destroyed by the Soviet army during the war. Von Trier's production company, Zentropa Entertainments, is named after the sinister railway network featured in this film, which is in turn named after the real-life train company Mitropa. Reception Europa was released as Zentropa in North America to avoid confusion with Europa Europa (1990). Critical reception The film received largely positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 81% score based on 16 reviews, with an