ALICE IN THE CITIES
Directed by Wim Wenders
Fiction –
Drama –
1973 –
West Germany –
112′
Synopsis
Technically, ALICE IN THE CITIES is Wenders’s fourth film, but he himself often refers to it as “his first,” because it was during this film that he discovered the genre of the road movie. (It would later become the first part of his Road Movie Trilogy, together with WRONG MOVE and KINGS OF THE ROAD.) It was also his first film to be shot partly in the US and the first to feature his alter ego, Phillip Winter (Rüdiger Vogler). ALICE is often compared with Charlie Chaplin’s THE KID. In 1974 it won the German Critics Prize.
Cast
Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer
Crew
Production – Produktion 1 in Filmverlag der Autoren (Munich)
Director – Wim Wenders
Producers – Wim Wenders, Peter Genée, Veith v. Fürstenberg
Screenplay – Wim Wenders, Veith v. Fürstenberg
Director of Photography – Robby Müller
Editors – Peter Przygodda, Barbara v. Weitershausen
Sound – Martin Müller
Music – Can, Chuck Berry, Gustav Mahler, Canned Heat, Deep Purple, Count Five, The Stories
