The German filmmaker Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend, the sound engineer Phillip winter, for help, but as Winter arrives Lisbon, Monroe is disappeared. He left behind some tapes with images, but no sound. The technician tirelessly walks through the streets of Lisbon, recording the sounds of the old town to complete the images recorded by his friend, with the hope that his microphone can pull Monroe’s pictures ‘out of darkness’ and just save his entire undertaking.
Wim Wenders
Director, producer, photographer and auteur cinema guru, born in 1945 in Düsseldorf (Germany). He was one of the pioneers of the New German Cinema of the 1970s and his filmography includes key titles of contemporary cinema awarded at Cannes such as ‘Paris, Texas’ (1984, Palme d’Or) and ‘Wings of Desire’ (1987, best director ) or ‘Perfect Days’ (2023, best actor), as well as Oscar-nominated documentaries such as ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ (1999), ‘Pina’ (2011) and ‘The Salt of the Earth’ (2014). In 1989 he played a major role in the creation of the European Film Academy, where he was elected president of its Governing Board, and in 2015 he was awarded the honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival. His photographic and film work has been exhibited and awarded at festivals and museums around the world. In 2012 he created, together with his wife Donata Wenders, the foundation that bears his name.
Organised by:
DIRECTOR
Wim Wenders
SCREENPLAY
Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lisa Rinzler
EDITOR
Peter Przygodda, Anne Schnee
SOUND
Vasco Pimentel, André Bendocchi-Alves, Evelyn Schmidt, Claudia Fröhlich
MUSIC
Madredeus, Jürgen Knieper
PRODUCTION
Ulrich Felsberg, Paulo Branco, Wim Wenders
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Road Movies Filmproduktion, Madragoa Filmes, Wim Wenders Stiftung
CAST
Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Teresa Salgueiro, Pedro Ayres Magalhães, Rodrigo Leão, Gabriel Gomes, José Peixoto, Francisco Ribeiro
RUNNING TIME
103 min.
TYPE
Feature film
FORMAT
Color and B/W
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
1994
VERSION
O.V. in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and German with Spanish subtitles
