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Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Staedten)

Phillip is a roving German reporter who, after a chance encounter with an elusive American woman, reluctantly accepts temporary custody of little Alice.

Their friendship grows while traveling through various European cities on a search for the girl´s grandmother. Inventive and witty, Alice in the Cities reflects on the influences of American pop culture on postwar Europe.

Wim Wenders was born in Duesseldorf in 1945. He abandoned studies in Medicine and Philosophy to become a painter, but in Paris he discovered cinema instead. He attended film school in Munich from 1967-1970, and then started to direct and produce his own films. He has received numerous international awards, including the Golden Lion (1982), the Golden Palm (1984), the European Film Award (1988), and a Silver Bear (2000). He is a professor at the Hamburg Academy of Arts, and lives partly in America, partly in Berlin. A selection of his acclaimed films includes: The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty (1971), Alice in the Cities (1973), In the Course of Time (1976), The American Friend (1977), Hammett (1982), The State of Things (1982), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987), Until the End of the World (1991), Faraway, So Close! (1993), Lisbon Story (1994), The End of Violence (1997), Buena Vista Social Club (1998), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), The Soul of a Man (2003), Land of Plenty (2004), Don’t Come Knocking (2005), and Palermo Shooting (2008), among others.
 

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 1973
Director Wim Wenders
Screenplay Veith von Fuerstenberg, Wim Wenders
Director of Photography Robby Mueller
Editor Peter Przygodda
Music by CAN
Producers Peter Geneé, Wim Wenders
Production Companies Produktion 1 im Filmverlag der Autoren/Munich, WDR/Cologne
Principal Cast Ernst Boehm, Edda Koechl, Lisa Kreuzer, Lois Moran, Didi Petrikat, Sam Presti, Yella Rottlaender, Ruediger Vogler
Length 110 min, 3,060 m
Format 16 mm, color, 1:1.37
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English, French, Japanese
Festival Screenings Locarno 2004, BAFICI Buenos Aires 2009
Awards German Critics' Award 1974
German Distributor Basis-Film Verleih/Berlin

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