Alice in the Cities
1974 · TMDB 7.7 · Alice in den Städten
Directed by Wim Wenders
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.
Why it matters
A German journalist and a young girl travel across the United States in search of her grandmother, a black-and-white road film about drift and the impossibility of escaping the past.
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Released
- 1974-05-17
- Studio
- Filmverlag der Autoren
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- TMDB score
- 7.7
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