DVD
Kings of the road
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Languages
In German, with English subtitles.
Performers
Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler, Marquard Bohm.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (176 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
A roving film projector repairman saves the life of depressed psychologist who has driven his Volkswagen into a river, and they end up on the road together, traveling from one rural German movie to another. Along the way, the two men, each running from his past, bond over their shared loneliness.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders ; audio commentary featuring Wenders ; German-language audio commentary featuring Wenders ; new interviews with Wenders, directed and conducted by filmmaker Michael Almereyda ; new interviews with actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, and Lisa Kreuzer ; Restoring time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation ; Same player shoots again (1967) and Silver City revisited (1968), two newly restored early short films by Wenders ; new English subtitle translation by Wenders.