Directed by:
Wim WendersScreenplay:
Wim WendersComposer:
Axel LinstädtCast:
Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler, Marquard Bohm, Franziska Stömmer, Wim Wenders, Hans Dieter Trayer, Patrick KreuzerPlots(1)
An unsettling encounter between two strangers opens this epic road movie, one of cinema’s most fascinating portraits of male friendship. A car races along a road, ending up in a shallow pond. Its distraught driver emerges, soaking wet. Robert (Hanns Zischler) is picked up by cinema projection engineer Bruno (Rüdiger Vogler). They initially travel together in order for Robert’s clothes to dry out, but an unspoken bond is formed between the two and some friendly help transforms into something deeper. (Curzon Film World)
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I’ve read the reviews on this site and I get most of the excitement about the movie. Wim Wenders can work wonders with nothing. The film does not pretend to be something it’s not. Quite the contrary, it creates an endless road movie with some interesting dialogues. I say some on purpose, as overall there is not much dialogue in it. Plus there are some camera shots that are great for taking a nap. But most of all there is the scene where one of the lead characters shits right in front of the camera. It is long, intense and I think that I will never again be hypnotized as much by a person shitting in front of the camera as in the case of this movie.
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A film about people seeking escape from disappointments and life crises in solitude while traveling across Germany. Yet just like the fate of German village movie theaters, their way of life is slowly but surely condemned to extinction. Throughout the story, two men become friends and must confront past traumas and new life questions in order to ultimately realize that "escaping from life" is not the solution. For me, the film's great atmosphere, however, hides a danger if the viewer fails to tune into its wavelength, in which case the nearly 3-hour runtime can be tiresome.
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