Kings of the Road
1976 · 177 min
Directed by Wim Wenders. Written by Wim Wenders. Starring Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler.
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.
Critics 100% · audiences 87% · streaming on Criterion Channel