1991
Director:
Wim
Wenders
Screenplay:
Wim Wenders
Peter Carey
Director of Photography:
Robby Müller
Editor:
Peter Przygodda
Musical Score:
Graeme Revell
Music:
U2, Talking Heads,
Lou Reed, T-Bone Burnett, Peter Gabriel, Can, Elvis Costello,
Crime and the City Solution, Robbie Robertson and Blue Nile,
Patti Smith and Fred Smith, R.E.M., Depeche Mode, Daniel Lanois,
Neneh Cherry, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Jane Siberry with
K.D. Lang
Production Design:
Thierry Flamand
Sally Campbell
Cast:
William Hurt
Solveig Dommartin
Max von Sydow
Sam Neill
Ernie Dingo
Rüdiger Vogler
Jeanne Moreau
Festivals/Awards:
1989 Gildepreis in Gold for Best German
Film
Producers:
Anatole Dauman
Jonathan Taplin
Ulrich Felsberg
Production:
Road Movies Filmproduktion/Berlin Argos
Films/Paris
Length:
179 min. Director's Cut: 270 min.
Format:
35mm Colour
Original Title:
Until the End of the World
Original Language:
English |
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Until
The End of the World is an odyssey for the modern age. As with
Homer's Odyssey, the purpose of the journey is to restore sight
-- a spiritual reconciliation between an obsessed father and
a deserted son. Dr. Farber, in trying to find a cure for his
wife's blindness, has created a device that allows the user
to send images directly to the brain, enabling the blind to
see.
The
creation and operation of such a machine is in stark contrast
to a deteriorating global situation, where the continued existence
of mankind is under threat from a nuclear powered satellite
that is falling toward earth.
Until The End of the World is a tale
of love and hope -- a metaphor for
the journey we must
all take toward our future…
the ultimate road movie.
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