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Alice in den Städten

Alice in den Städten

1974Movie⏱️ 1h 53mNot Rated
Drama
7.8
IMDB Rating
14,838 votes

A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

Director
Wim Wenders
Writers
Wim Wenders, Veith von Fürstenberg
Stars
Yella Rottländer, Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer
Release Date
May 17, 1974
Language
German, English, Dutch
Country
West Germany
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Wins
🎯 1
Nominations
💬 50
Reviews
📋 26.3K
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🎭 Top Cast

Yella Rottländer
Yella Rottländer
as Alice van Damm
Rüdiger Vogler
Rüdiger Vogler
as Philip Winter
Lisa Kreuzer
Lisa Kreuzer
as Lisa van Damm
Edda Köchl
Edda Köchl
as Angela - Friend in New York
Ernest Boehm
Ernest Boehm
as Publisher
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Sam Presti
as Car Dealer
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Lois Moran
as Airport Hostess
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Didi Petrikat
as Woman at Swimming Park
Hans Hirschmüller
Hans Hirschmüller
as Police Officer
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Sibylle Baier
as Woman on Ferry

💰 Box Office

$59,294
Worldwide Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Wuppertal Suspension Railway, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Production
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Produktion 1 im Filmverlag der Autoren

🏷️ Keywords

germanyairporton the roadnew york cityamsterdam netherlands

🎯 Categories

GermanRoad TripDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Motherboard for a film genre
by karmaswimswami2015-01-11
8/10

"What's not to like about this early Wim Wenders road-genre film? It's an operatic overture in which he sets out the themes, the provenance, the pacing we will see again in again...in "Goalie," in "Paris, Texas," even in "Wings of Desire." The atmospherics are perfect, and I could watch a 40-hour miniseries in this vein. The final 35mm print is bogged down now and again in graininess from blow-ups of the original 16mm negative, but the characters are flesh and blood, credible, and well- played. Alice's interaction with the protagonist's guiding ..."

💡 Did You Know?

The novel "Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is seen on the coffee table of Phil Winter's girlfriend. A character in the novel, Rosemary Hoyt, was inspired by Fitzgerald's affair with actress Lois Moran, who appears in this film as an airport hostess. It was Moran's last movie.

📖 Synopsis

A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.