Alice in the Cities

Name: Alice in the Cities
Genre: Drama
Released: 1974-05-17
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Ernest Boehm

Alice in den Städten (1974)

Timing: 1:50 (110 min)

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Release date

1974-05-17

Country

Germany

Production

WDR, Filmverlag der Autoren

Genre

Drama

Budget

$500 000

Revenue

$45 637

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Director

Wim Wenders

Actors

Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Ernest Boehm, Sam Presti, Lois Moran, Didi Petrikat, Hans Hirschmüller, Sibylle Baier
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Scenario

Producer

Wim Wenders, Joachim von Mengershausen

Operator

Robby Müller

Composer

Irmin Schmidt

Artist

Audition

Editing

Peter Przygodda
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Short description

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.

What's left behind the scenes

The concert of Chuck Berry (1926-2017) shown in the film was filmed by documentarian D.A. Pennebaker in Toronto (Canada) in 1969. Wim Wenders himself filmed Berry's performance in Frankfurt in 1970, but discovered that he would have to pay exorbitant royalties to use his material in the film according to copyright law.
Director of the film, Wim Wenders, filmed at a cafe near the jukebox.
The idea for this film was suggested to director and screenwriter Wim Wenders by the experience of his friend, Austrian writer and playwright Peter Handke, as a single father.
According to Wim Wenders, he was very upset to learn that Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022) had filmed the crime drama "Paper Moon" with a plot that Wenders considered similar. Samuel Fuller (1912-1997), also a director and mentor to Wenders, convinced him not to abandon the project halfway through and to finish the film.
According to Wim Wenders, he was very upset to learn that Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022) had filmed the crime drama "Paper Moon" with a plot similar, in Wenders' opinion. Samuel Fuller (1912-1997), also a director and mentor to Wenders, convinced him not to abandon what he had started and to finish the film.

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