UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
| 1991 – 150′ – A Germany/France/USA/Australia Co-Production. Drama, Sci-Fi, Classic, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Michael Almereyda, Peter Carey, Solveig Dommartin, Wim Wenders.
Directed by: Wim Wenders.
Starring: Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin, Jeanne Moreau, Chick Ortega, Eddy Mitchell, Adelle Lutz, Ernie Dingo, Max Von Sydow.
In English.
A The Criterion Collection release. |
Conceived as the ultimate road movie, Wim Wenders’ magnum opus–a decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic starring Solveig Dommartin and William Hurt–follows the restless Claire Tourneur across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger in possession of a device that can make the blind see and bring dream images to waking life. Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers, who befriend and enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law (Hurt), an American who is being chased by the CIA. The charges are false, he says, that they want to confiscate a device his father has invented which allows you to record your dreams and vision. On the run from the bank robbers and the CIA, they span the globe, ending up in Australia at the research facility of his father (von Sydow), where they hope to be able to play back the recordings Hurt has made to his blind mother.