Kings of the Road (1976)
(Im Laufe der Zeit)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 176m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler
Synopsis:
Two men wander the territory near the East-West German border; one of them stops at small town cinemas to service projection equipment.
Review:
Wenders' extraordinary odyssey without a home to go to was one of the most significant of the New German films of the decade, no doubt at least partly inspired by Easy Rider. Revealing something of our expectations about story and structure by replacing them with length and episodic eventlessness, it expressed the void and longing at the heart of its characters, hinting through its setting at the national malaise of a country divided in two. There is much of interest to cineastes, not least the celebrated sequence in which Vogler creates a loop out of found footage at the cinema.
(Im Laufe der Zeit)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 176m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler
Synopsis:
Two men wander the territory near the East-West German border; one of them stops at small town cinemas to service projection equipment.
Review:
Wenders' extraordinary odyssey without a home to go to was one of the most significant of the New German films of the decade, no doubt at least partly inspired by Easy Rider. Revealing something of our expectations about story and structure by replacing them with length and episodic eventlessness, it expressed the void and longing at the heart of its characters, hinting through its setting at the national malaise of a country divided in two. There is much of interest to cineastes, not least the celebrated sequence in which Vogler creates a loop out of found footage at the cinema.
(Im Laufe der Zeit)
Country: GER
Technical: bw 176m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler
Synopsis:
Two men wander the territory near the East-West German border; one of them stops at small town cinemas to service projection equipment.
Review:
Wenders' extraordinary odyssey without a home to go to was one of the most significant of the New German films of the decade, no doubt at least partly inspired by Easy Rider. Revealing something of our expectations about story and structure by replacing them with length and episodic eventlessness, it expressed the void and longing at the heart of its characters, hinting through its setting at the national malaise of a country divided in two. There is much of interest to cineastes, not least the celebrated sequence in which Vogler creates a loop out of found footage at the cinema.