Chapter 16 Europa

Summary

Europa is chat rare thing, a genuinely European film. Although Danish in origin, the film was made by Swedish, Danish, German and French partners, filmed in English and German and shot partly in Poland. This combination, involving as it did mandatory casting-by-quota and, for example, the housing of some French crew in Denmark, added to the cost as well as to the headaches of production.

The subject matter was intellectually challenging and the setting - Germany at the end of the war - mostly of interest to an older generation. This limited its potential audience, which could be characterized as 'European art-house'. The film was shot in Scope and mostly in black-and-white, thereby guaranteeing low television sales. ...

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