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Overview
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It's 1999. The government will kill for his invention. One woman will do anything for his love. Together they share an adventure that circles the globe - And invades the mind. morePlot:
Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers, who befriend and enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 win moreUser Comments:
A difficult film at first, but so is all good literature moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Solveig Dommartin | ... | Claire Tourneur | |
| Pietro Falcone | ... | Mario | |
| Enzo Turrin | ... | Doctor | |
| Chick Ortega | ... | Chico Remy | |
| Eddy Mitchell | ... | Raymond Monnet | |
| William Hurt | ... | Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee | |
| Adelle Lutz | ... | Makiko | |
| Ernie Dingo | ... | Burt | |
| Jean-Charles Dumay | ... | Mechanic | |
| Sam Neill | ... | Eugene Fitzpatrick | |
| Ernest Berk | ... | Anton Farber | |
| Christine Osterlein | ... | Irina Farber | |
| Rüdiger Vogler | ... | Phillip Winter | |
| Diogo Dória | ... | Receptionist | |
| Amália Rodrigues | ... | Woman in Street Car |
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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
280 min (director's cut) | Germany:179 min | Spain:179 min | Sweden:158 min | USA:158 minColor:
Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:12 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:RMOVIEmeter: 
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It was only after "Wings of Desire" turned out to be a sleeper hit, that Wim Wenders was able to get funding for this film. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: With all electrical devices dead, Buzzer says "without this hand cranker [diesel truck], we'd be going nowhere." He then starts the truck with its electric starter motor. moreQuotes:
Claire Tourneur: I don't know where he is. If I knew that, I would be with him; I would be making love to him! I can't believe I just said that.Burt: It's the sodium pentathol I put in your drink. It's a truth drug.
Claire Tourneur: That's all right. I put sleeping pills in your drink.
Burt: Waiter! Coffee!
[slumps]
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Discuss this title with other users on IMDb message board for Bis ans Ende der Welt (1991)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| Why this film sucks | spoodie |
| 6.6 out of 10? WTF? | Egghead7 |
| Until the End of the World Pictures Posted | merubin75 |
| 280 min. version DVD | H-Riedler |
| spooky | Gary_Allen |
| Claire's Rover sedan | msh-12 |
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The vast majority of people I know have never understood this film. Probably this is because the 2.5 hour running time of the original release is actually vastly too short for the story. The director's cut is a whopping 4.5 hours, but goes by so quickly one hardly notices. If you are bored, then you probably haven't figured out what's really going on. Some notes:
This is a story of trials, of how our relationships to each other, and to humanity and the Earth, are shaped and impeded by technology. It is a fearful story of the dangers of our world as Wenders saw them in almost 20 years ago now. The journey is central here (as it is in almost all epic works) and the story doesn't work without seeing that journey unfold first all over the earth (and no, it wasn't about sponsoring nations--the journey of Sam and Claire et al reenacts other journeys only alluded to in the film, bringing up themes of connectedness to family and place.)
To me the most important theme in this film is the power of the journey and of stories to transform us--a theme so old we may be tired of it, though it remains relevant today. Eugene (Neill) is to me the central character, and any good viewing of the movie depends on understanding how he fits in as more than a side character caught up in a great chase.
One last note: this doesn't deserve to be described as Sci-Fi. Yes, there's some science-like imagery in it, but the thrust of the movie is literary. The "science-fiction" in the movie serves only as an extension of the transformations and journeys of the characters. It turns those things inward rather than outward, and succeeds well in doing it. A truly remarkable and excellent film that got a bad first screening because no distributor had the guts to put out a 5 hour movie. (What would they say to Akira Kurosawa these days?)