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.
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
Cast
Rüdiger Vogler
Hanns Zischler
Lisa Kreuzer
Rudolf Schündler
Marquard Bohm
Hans Dieter Trayer
Franziska Stömmer
Patric Kreuzer
Wim Wenders
Peter Kaiser
Michael Wiedemann
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