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...German employee of the U.S. mission in Berlin and two former Stasi officers were arrested for belonging to a spy ring that targeted U.S. Air Force personnel in Europe. Significantly, one of the ex- Stasi men was already working on the Kremlin's behalf, according to federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl. In Britain senior officials say at least 50 Russian spies are active in London alone; the government is considering the expulsion of a number of Russian diplomats...
DIRECTOR: LARS VON TRIER...
WRITERS: LARS VON TRIER and NIELS VORSEL...
Zentropa gives signs that the answer is yes. This existential melodrama was originally known as Europa, and Danish director Lars von Trier's ambition is that vast: Continent-wide. Set on a German train rumbling through the rubble of World War II -- but suggesting the recent chaos of post-communist Europe -- Zentropa plays like a hallucinogenic remake of The Third Man. A naive American, Leo (Jean-Marc Barr), walks into a web of political duplicity spun by a desperate provocateuse (Barbara Sukowa), a cynical Allied officer (Eddie Constantine) and lots of supporting sharks and werewolves. And where is Harry Lime...
...Von Trier will never be nailed on that rap. He passionately promotes himself and European movies. At last year's Cannes festival, when this film lost out to the Hollywood comedy Barton Fink, Von Trier threw a snit fit, angrily claiming that his movie was bolder and better. He was right. Zentropa plunders the film vocabulary -- back projection and superimposition, black-and-white with shrieks of color -- to anchor its weirdness in classical technique. The legerdemain reminds you of the artificial nature of movies even as it draws you back to the era when pictures seduced the audience into...