1996

Director:
Wim Wenders
with the students
of the HFF, Munich

Screenplay:
Wim Wenders
with the students
of the HFF, Munich

Director of Photography:
Jürgen Jürges

Editor:
Peter Przygodda

Music:
Laurent Petitgand

Cast:
Udo Kier
Nadine Büttner
Christoph Merg
Otto Kuhnle
Lucie Hürtgent-Skladanowsky

Producers:
Wim Wenders
Veit Helmer
Wolfgang Längsfeld

Production:
Wim Wenders Produktion/Berlin
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF) Munich
Veit Helmer Filmproduktion/Berlin

Length:
79 min.

Format:
35mm
B&W and Colour

Original Title:
Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky

Original Language:
German

This film by Wim Wenders and students of the Munich Film Academy deals with the birth of cinema in Berlin, where the brothers Skladanowsky built a projector, the "Bioskop," at the same time as the Lumiere Brothers in France and Edison in America, and thereby co-invented "moving pictures" in their very own poetic, poor, endearing and rather "un-German" way.

The film starts a hundred years ago and it ends in present day 1996 with Max Skladanowsky's daughter Lucie who still remembers her dad and those early days of cinema very well.