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Kings of the Road
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Title: Kings of the Road

Release Date: 4 Mar 1976

Runtime: 2h 56m

Genre: Drama

Director: Wim Wenders Productions, WDR, Wim Wenders Stiftung

Production Companies: Wim Wenders Productions, WDR, Wim Wenders Stiftung

Overview: Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - 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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Average Vote: 7.473 (131 votes)

Cast

  • Bruno Winter: Rüdiger Vogler
  • Robert Lander: Hanns Zischler
  • Pauline - Cashier: Lisa Kreuzer
  • Robert's Father: Rudolf Schündler
  • Man Who Lost His Wife: Marquard Bohm
  • Paul - Garage Owner: Hans Dieter Trayer
  • Cinema Owner: Franziska Stömmer
  • Little Boy: Patric Kreuzer
  • Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited): Wim Wenders
  • Masturbating Projectionist (uncredited): Peter Kaiser
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