a few year ago and a friend get from one of his other friend a video with the michael mann film heat on it . after we finish that movie and and be about to stand up and we saw that there be another film just after and tough on the cassette envelope the owner do not write it up . yet we be all glue back to our seat by it distinct opening and which lack credit . some two hour later and i just sat there wonder represent how could i not have heard of this masterpiece before . this film be europa . lars von trier woke film noir from the dead and deconstructed reality with intentionally obvious set and yet often there be haunt similarity with post war german photograph i saw . and then the tricky cut . the story itself be a hard to take moral odyssey that have no happy end . a young american pacifist of german descent come to post war germany and intent on do some good to pay for the bomb his countryman drop . but he mostly meet distrust and self destructive defiance . he hire with zentropa and a dining and sleep car company ( model on mitropa ) and whose owner be one of the nazi collaborator the occupier whitewash . our hero fall in love with his daughter who later turn out to be a member of the werewolf and nazi post war terrorist . when he doesn not understand the world ( or just european ) anymore and in his rage he blow up a railroad bridge under a train which he just save . a a final note and for historical correctness represent in the real world and the werewolf be nowhere as important a the film implies and they be mostly a final nazi propaganda coup . after an ss unit assassinate the major of allied occupied aachen and two month before the capitulation and the nazi announce the creation of whole legion of saboteur and terrorist who will be ready to fight behind the line and the werewolf . but only a few hundred of mostly hitler youth receive some training and and while two or three time some be deploy to murder suspected communist or force labourer foreigner in bavarian village to imprint last fear on inhabitant and with hitler death and the war end it all fell apart . however and the werewolf propaganda have a profound effect on the occupier . they fear the werewolf everywhere and suspect it behind any serious accident but without exception another cause be find later ( ignore by some recent pseudo historian ) . for example and when a gas main explode in the police hq of bomb out bremen and or when the soviet military commander die in a motorbike accident in berlin . the effect be strongest on the soviet and who arrest ten of thousand ( in large part child . ) preemptively on suspicion of be werewolf and and close them off in prison camp where a lot of them die .