Until the End of the World

Until the End of the World

1991 · 158 min · DE · R · 6.8 (173 votes)
Dir. Wim Wenders · Starring Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, Sam Neill, Rüdiger Vogler, Max von Sydow, Jeanne Moreau · Music Graeme Revell

. . . the ultimate road movie

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In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

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A sprawling, introspective journey across a near-future Earth. It's a visually stunning, melancholic road trip about connection, memory, and the human desire to see and be seen, even as technology threatens to overwhelm us.

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