Director
Wim Wenders
Leading Actors/Actresses
Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer
Supporting Actors/Actresses
Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, and Ernest Boehm
Genre
Road Movie
Language
German, English, and Dutch
Awards
Nominated for Best Feature at the Chicago International Film Festival
Date of Release
May 17th, 1974
Producer
Peter Genée and Joachim von Mengershausen
Setting and Context
The United States and West Germany
Narrator and Point of View
Told from a third-person point of view
Tone and Mood
Fun, Solemn, Chaotic, Distressing, Calm, Angry, and Violent
Protagonist and Antagonist
Philip Winter (Protagonist) vs. Winter's struggle to get home (antagonist)
Major Conflict
Winter's struggle to get home to West Germany from the United States - all while bringing along Lisa and her daughter, Alice
Climax
When Philip turns Alice into the police
Foreshadowing
Philip eventually handing Alice over to the Police is foreshadowed early on in the film
Understatement
Philip Winter's empathy and kindness is understated in much of the film
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
N/A
Allusions
Wenders' previous films, Popular Culture, History, Geography, the films of John Cassavetes and Alfred Hitchcock, Music, and Wenders' experiences.
Paradox
Philip hardly knows - and certainly isn't related to - Alice, yet Lisa leaves Alice in Philip's care.
Parallelism
N/A
