The third entry in Wim Wenders's Road Trilogy, once again starring Rüdiger Vogler. Unanimous winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at...
The third entry in Wim Wenders's Road Trilogy, once again starring Rüdiger Vogler. Unanimous winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes.
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler) - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.
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100 %7 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
88 %742 reviewsAudience score rating
"Bewilderment in a wasteland has rarely been filmed with such tender irony and sentimental optimism."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"It has a number of compelling and witty scenes, and its imagery is harshly apt. But it is three hours long, which is at least an hour too much; and its successes are scattered like meager raisins through a mass of gray dough."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"A complex work, which is perhaps marred only by the continuing enigma of the protagonists."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineKings of the Road | Details
Award winner- Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize (Wenders), 1976 Cannes Film Festival
- Runtime
- 175
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- West Germany
