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Synopsis

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

Year1976
CountryGermany
DirectorWim Wenders
Cinematic DNA
Wenders' early films, like Alice in the Cities and Kings of the Road, were very important to me, especially their sense of atmosphere and movement.
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