Alice in the Cities

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Alice in the Cities
Directed by	Wim Wenders
Produced by	Peter Genée Joachim von Mengershausen
Written by	Wim Wenders Veith von Fürstenberg
Starring	Rüdiger Vogler Yella Rottländer
Cinematography	Robby Müller
Editing by	Peter Przygodda
Release date(s)	1974
Running time	110 min.
Country	West Germany
Language	German English Dutch
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Alice in the Cities (German: Alice in den Städten) is a 1974 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. This was the first part of Wenders' "Road Movie Trilogy" which included The Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976). German, English and Dutch. Shot in haunting black and white by Robby Müller with several long scenes without dialogue.

[edit] Plot

By an unlikely twist of fate, reporter Phil Winter finds himself stuck with a little girl, Alice, searching the cities of Germany for her grandmother, whose name and address Alice can't remember. The only clue they have is a photograph of her grandmother's front door with no house number and no one in the shot. The film's theme closely foreshadows Wenders' later film Paris Texas.

[edit] Cast

• Rüdiger Vogler as Phil Winter
• Yella Rottländer as Alice
• Lisa Kreuzer as Alice's Mother

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Alice in the Cities at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Wim Wenders

Summer in the City • The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty • The Scarlet Letter • Alice in the Cities • The Wrong Move • Kings of the Road • The American Friend • Lightning Over Water  • Hammett • The State of Things • Paris, Texas • Tokyo-Ga • Wings of Desire • Until the End of the World • Faraway, So Close! • Lisbon Story • The End of Violence • Buena Vista Social Club • The Million Dollar Hotel • Ten Minutes Older • The Soul of a Man • Land of Plenty • Don't Come Knocking •

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