One of the films that helped to introduce the very particular talent of Lars von Trier to a world cinema audience, his 1991 Europa (known in the USA as Zentropa, the name von Trier adopted for his own production company) is the final film in the director's Europa trilogy, following on from The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens element, 1984) and Epidemic (1987). the film is a fever dream in which American pacifist Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) stumbles into a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways in a Kafkaesque 1945 postwar Frankfurt. With its gorgeous black-and-white and colour imagery and meticulously recreated (if then nightmarishly deconstructed) costumes and sets, Europa is one of the great Danish filmmaker's weirdest and most wonderful works, a runaway train ride to an oddly futuristic past.

Available on UK DVD as an early stand-alone disc and as the E-trilogy box set, both from Tartan, Europa has now been announced for a region 1 US release as part of the Criterion Collection with a newly restored high-definition anamorphic 2.35:1 digital transfer, Dolby Digital stereo 2.0 soundtrack and the following extra features:

• Audio commentary featuring director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen (in Danish, with English subtitles);
• The Making of Europa (1991), a documentary following the film from storyboarding to production;
• Trier's Element (1991), a documentary featuring an interview with von Trier, and footage from the set and Europa's Cannes premiere and press conference;
• Anecdotes from Europa (2005), a short documentary featuring interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Barr, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, assistant director Tómas Gislason, co-writer Niels Vørsel, and prop master Peter Grant;
• 2005 interviews with cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, composer Joachim Holbek, costume designer Manon Rasmussen, film-school teacher Mogens Rukov, editor/director Tómas Gislason, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, art director Peter Grant, actor Michael Simpson, production manager Per Arman, actor Ole Ernst;
• A conversation with Lars von Trier from 2005, in which the director speaks about the "Europa" trilogy;
• Europa – The Faecal Location (2005), a short film by Gislason;
• New and improved English subtitle translation;
• A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Howard Hampton.

Europa will be released on US DVD by Criterion in December 2008 (exact date to be confirmed) at the SRP of $39.95.