lars von trier europa be a worthy echo of the third man and about an american come to post world war ii europe and find himself entangle in a dangerous mystery . jean marc barr play leopold kessler and a german american who refuse to join the u army during the war and arrive in frankfurt as soon a the war be over to work with his uncle a a sleeping car conductor on the zentropa railway . what he doesn not know be the war be still secretly go on with an underground terrorist group call the werewolf who target american ally . leopold be strongly against take any side and but be draw in and seduce by katharina hartmann ( barbara sukowa ) and the femme fatale daughter of the owner of the railway company . her father be a nazi sympathizer and but be pardon by the american colonel harris ( eddie considine ) because he can help get the german transportation system up and run again . the colonel soon enlists and or force and leopold to be a spy ( without give him a choice or chance to think about it ) to see if the werewolf might carry out attack on the train . soon and leopold be stick in an adventure by be involve with both side of the conflict in a mysterious and film noir ish way and where everyone and everything be not what it seem . it amazing to watch the naive leopold deal with everything ( his lover and the terrorist and the colonel and annoy passenger and his disgruntled uncle and even the railway company official who come to examine his work ethic ) before he finally boil over and humorously and violently take control . the film be endlessly unpredictable . the film stylishly shot and it always take place at night during the winter with lot of fall snow . it shot in black and white with shot of color randomly appear throughout . also and background screen display image that counter act with the image up front . add max von sydow hypnotic narration and and europa become a dreamlike place that out of this world . this be now a personal favorite film of mine .