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Alice in the Cities (German: Alice in den Städten) is a 1974 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It is the first part of Wenders' " Road Movie trilogy ", which also includes The Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976).
Things change, however, when he has no choice but to take a young girl named Alice (Yella Rottländer) with him on his return trip to Germany, after her mother (Lisa Kreuzer)—whom he has just met—leaves the child in his care.
- Phillip “Phil” Winter
A German journalist and a girl left in his care embark on a search for the child's grandparents.
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- Rudiger Vogler
- Wim Wenders
- Drama
A German journalist and a young girl travel across Europe in search of her grandmother after meeting at a New York airport. The film explores themes of friendship, identity, and the soul of America.
May 31, 2016 · A film essay by Allison Anders on Wenders' 1974 road movie, Alice in the Cities, which features a complex and empowered female child character. She travels with a photographer who is in a crisis and learns to trust him, while he learns to be present and connect with the world.
Oct 16, 2013 · Wim Wenders directs his protagonist, wandering German author Philip (Rudiger Vogler), to a Manhattan airline office, where he learns that the air traffic control strike back home is a problem, and meets Alice (Yella Rottlander) and Lisa (Elisabeth Kreuzer), in Alice In The Cities, 1974.
The first of the road films that would come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent ALICE IN THE CITIES is an emotionally generous and luminously shot odyssey. A German journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) is driving across the United States to research an article; it’s a disappointing trip, in which he is unable to truly connect with ...
