Bis ans Ende der Welt (1991)

Director:

Wim Wenders

Writers:

Michael Almereyda (writer)
Peter Carey (writer)

Release Date:

25 December 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

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.

Plot:

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...

Plot Keywords:

1999 | Bank Robber | Australia | Road | Dream

Awards:

1 win

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Until the End of the World (UK) (USA)
Jusqu'au bout du monde (France)

Runtime:

280 min (director's cut) | Germany:179 min | Spain:179 min | Sweden:158 min | USA:158 min | Argentina:179 min

Country:

Germany | France | Australia

Language:

English | French | Italian | Japanese | German

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby | LC-Concept Digital Sound (France)

Certification:

Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:12 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bavaria Filmstudios, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Argos Films

Trivia:

'Wim Wender''s original rough cut for this film was twenty hours long ("It will never be seen!").

Goofs:

Continuity: When many of the European characters leave the Mbantua settlement and take a group photo, believing the adventure to be over, the voice-over mentions that it is February, 2000. Yet shortly after we see Henry Farber trying a new series of experiments on recording dream imagery, and a computer display for the current experiment says January 21.

Quotes:

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]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Cinemania (2002)

Soundtrack:

Blood of Eden

find a way to see the 4 hour and 40 minute version

I don't know how often this film has been shown in its original length (4hr40min), but this version is clearly superior to the shorter film released in theaters. I was able to see it at screening in NYC. Simply put, there's a layer of resolution and contextuality that is seriously lacking in the edited version.