Kings of the Road

Mar 4, 1976

2h 56m

★ 7.4

Overview

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Wim Wenders Productions

WDR

Wim Wenders Stiftung

Kings of the Road Trailers

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Cast

Bruno Winter

Rüdiger Vogler

Robert Lander

Hanns Zischler

Pauline - Cashier

Lisa Kreuzer

Robert's Father

Rudolf Schündler

Man Who Lost His Wife

Marquard Bohm

Paul - Garage Owner

Hans Dieter Trayer

Cinema Owner

Franziska Stömmer

Little Boy

Patric Kreuzer

Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)

Wim Wenders

Masturbating Projectionist (uncredited)

Peter Kaiser

Teacher (uncredited)

Michael Wiedemann

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