Kings of the Road

★★★★★

Original title: Im Lauf der Zeit · Turkish title: Zamanın akışında

1976 · 2 h 55 min

Directed by Wim Wenders · Germany · New German Cinema

Drama

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Cast

Rüdiger Vogler Hanns Zischler

Plot

Two men travel along the German-German border repairing cinema projectors.

Sinekatalog’s take

Wim Wenders's road movie follows two men repairing cinema projectors along the German border. Long, lyrical and black-and-white, with a melancholy of postwar Germany, it is a defining road film about friendship and loneliness.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (7,381 votes)
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