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Alice in the Cities
Alice in den Städten
Directed by Wim Wenders
1974•1h 50m•NR•★ 7.7
Drama
Synopsis
A frustrated German journalist suffering from writer's block while touring the US with a Polaroid camera is stranded at an airport when a woman leaves her nine-year-old daughter Alice in his temporary care and vanishes, leading the unlikely pair on a tender, observant road trip across the industrial Ruhr Valley searching for her grandmother's house. Wim Wenders and Robby Müller's breakthrough Road Movie trilogy opener starring Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer.
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DirectorWim Wenders
WriterVeith von FürstenbergWim Wenders
CinematographyRobby Müller
MusicIrmin Schmidt
Principal Cast
Rüdiger VoglerPhilip Winter
Yella RottländerAlice van Damm
Lisa KreuzerLisa van Damm
Lois MoranAirport Hostess
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Edda KöchlAngelaEB
Ernest BoehmPublisherSP
Sam PrestiCar DealerDP
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Runtime1h 50m (110 mins)
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DirectorWim Wenders
LanguagesGerman, English, Dutch
CountryDE
StudioFilmverlag der Autoren • WDR
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