Rüdiger Vogler
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Alice in the Cities (German: Alice in den Städten) is a 1974 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It is the first part of Wenders' " Road Movie trilogy ", which also includes The Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976).
A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport. German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States.
A German journalist and a girl left in his care embark on a search for the child's grandparents.
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Things change, however, when he has no choice but to take a young girl named Alice (Yella Rottländer) with him on his return trip to Germany, after her mother (Lisa Kreuzer)—whom he has just met—leaves the child in his care.
Alice in the Cities is a sensitive and thoughtful film that suggests that everything in life has a purpose and that guidance is available if we remain open. The film mixes humor and pathos as the reluctant friends must contend with loneliness and alienation, themes often prevalent in Wenders' films.
May 31, 2016 · With Alice in the Cites, Wim Wenders created one of the most nuanced and complex portraits of an empowered young girl ever seen on-screen.
Overview. German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same.
Alice in the Cities. “This gorgeous, complex story of a self-possessed nine-year-old adrift on the road with an unlikely writer/journalist companion is one of Wim Wenders’ best. Infused with bits of captivating music—Sibylle Baier, Chuck Berry, Canned Heat—and exquisitely shot in black and white by Robby Müller, ALICE IN THE CITIES is ...
Directed by Wim Wenders • 1974 • West Germany. Starring Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Elisabeth Kreuzer. 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 luminously shot odyssey.
Apr 24, 2017 · Alice in the Cities. In Wim Wenders’s 1974 drama, Rüdiger Vogler plays the director’s alter ego, Philip Winter, a thirtysomething German journalist on the road in the United States.
