Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 177 min
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- suicide attempt
- male friendship
- road movie
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Rüdiger Vogler
Bruno Winter
Hanns Zischler
Robert Lander
Lisa Kreuzer
Pauline - Cashier
Rudolf Schündler
Robert's Father
- Marquard Bohm — Man Who Lost His Wife
- Hans Dieter Trayer — Paul - Garage Owner
- Franziska Stömmer — Cinema Owner
- Patric Kreuzer — Little Boy
- Wim Wenders — Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
- Peter Kaiser — Masturbating Projectionist (uncredited)
- Michael Wiedemann — Teacher (uncredited)
- Directed
- Wim Wenders
- Written
- Wim Wenders
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 150 ratings
- Studio
- Wim Wenders Productions, WDR, Wim Wenders Stiftung
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