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Kings of the Road

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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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1976-03-04

Runtime: 176 mins

Director: Wim Wenders

Spoken language: English, Deutsch

Genres: Drama

Original title: Kings of the Road

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

Production Countries: Germany

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