Kings of the Road (1976)

1976 · 177 min · Drama

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.

Directed by Wim Wenders. Starring Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler and Marquard Bohm.

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