Kings of the road
DVD - 2016
A roving film projector repairman saves the life of depressed psychologist who has driven his Volkswagen into a river, and they end up on the road together, traveling from one rural German movie to another. Along the way, the two men, each running from his past, bond over their shared loneliness.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Road films
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2016]
- Language
- German
English - Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1976 ; this version released as part of a three volume set.
Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders; Audio commentary featuring Wenders; German-language audio commentary featuring Wenders; New interviews with Wenders, directed and conducted by filmmaker Michael Almereyda; New interviews with actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, and Lisa Kreuzer; Restoring Time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation; Same Player Shoots Again (1967) and Silver City Revisited (1968), two newly restored early short films by Wenders; New English subtitle translation by Wenders. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (176 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
- Production Credits
- Directors of photography, Robby Müller, Martin Schäfer ; music, Axel Linstädt ; editor, Peter Przygodda.
- ISBN
- 9781681431611
9781681431581
- Disc 1. Kings of the road
- Disc 2. Supplements.