Zentropa (film company)

:"Zentropa" redirects here. The 1991 film "Europa" was released in North America as "Zentropa".

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Zentropa or Zentropa Entertainments is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen.

It has produced over 70 feature films and has become the largest film production company in Scandinavia. It owns a number of subsidiary companies.

Zentropa may be best known for creating the Dogme95-movement, leading to such acclaimed films as "Idioterne" (1998), "Festen" (1998) and "Mifunes sidste sang" (1999).

It was the first mainstream film company to produce hardcore pornographic films: "Constance" (1998), "Pink Prison" (1999), "HotMen CoolBoyz" (2000) and the adult/mainstream-crossover feature "All About Anna" (2005).

Zentropa is also responsible for creating a large studio complex called Filmbyen, where both Zentropa and many other film-related companies are located.

Zentropa is named from the train company Zentropa in the film "Europa" (1991), which started the collaboration between Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen.

Zentropa-companies

*EF Rental
*Electric Parc
*Puzzy Power
*Trust Film Sales
*Zentropa Real
*Zentropa Interaction
*Zentropa Rekorder
*Zentropa Klippegangen

Zentropa-productions

*Lars von Trier's "Europa" (1991)
*Lars von Trier's "Riget" (1994)
*Lars von Trier's "Breaking the Waves" (1996)
*Lars von Trier's "Riget II" (1997)
*Knud Vesterskov's "Constance" (1998)
*Lisbeth Lynghøft's "Pink Prison" (1999)
*Knud Vesterskov's "HotMen CoolBoyz" (2000)
*Lone Scherfig's "Italiensk for begyndere" (2000)
*Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark" (2000)
*Jesper W. Nielsen's "Okay" (2002)
*Lars von Trier's "Dogville" (2003)
*Thomas Vinterberg's "It's All About Love" (2003)
*Jørgen Leth's "De fem benspænd" (2003)
*Susanne Bier's "Brødre" (2004)
*Niels Arden Oplev's "" (2004)
*Jessica Nilsson's "All About Anna" (2005)
*Lars von Trier's "Manderlay" (2005)
*Thomas Vinterberg's "Dear Wendy" (2005)
*Lars von Trier's "Direktøren for det hele" (2006)
*Susanne Bier's "Efter brylluppet" (2006)
*Christian E. Christiansen's "Om natten" (2007)

ources

* [http://www.zentropa.dk/ Zentropa official site]
* [http://www.filmbyen.dk/ Filmbyen official site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/company/co0136662/ Zentropa at IMDb]
* [http://www.dfi.dk/tidsskriftetfilm/55/filmproduktion.htm Interview with Peter Aalbæk Jensen]