Wim Wenders is synonymous with the road movie. One of the first of the New German cinema movement to achieve international recognition, the director forged his reputation with Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Kings of the Road, a loose trilogy all starring Rüdiger Vogler as an alter ego figure. Cumulatively the trilogy is one of the great landmarks of European cinema and signifies Wenders’s interest in angst, America and alienation on a personal and national level.
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Kings of the Road
A roving film projector repairman saves the life of a depressed psychologist who has driven his Volkswagen into a river, and they end up on…
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Alice in the Cities
The first of the road films that would come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent Alice in the Cities is an emotionally generous and…
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The Wrong Move
With characteristic depth and style, Wim Wenders updates a late-eighteenth-century novel by Goethe, transposing it to 1970s West Germany and giving us the story of…