MFAH Film Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road – Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road series.

The Museum is pleased to participate in the international celebration of talented German filmmaker, Wim Wenders, taking advantage of new digital restorations.

First earning an international reputation as a cofounder of the New German Cinema movement in the 1970s, his remarkable filmography since then includes award-winning features and documentaries. His classic road trilogy screens in February, and will be followed by more films during 2016.

Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit)
Directed by Wim Wenders
1976, in German with English subtitles
West Germany
B/W
175 minutes

Kings of the Road is about a friendship between two men: Bruno, aka King of the Road (Rüdiger Vogler), who repairs film projectors and travels along the inner German border in his truck, and psychologist Robert, aka Kamikaze (Hanns Zischler), who is fleeing from his own past.

When Robert drives his Volkswagen into the Elbe River, he is fished out by Bruno.

Thus begins their journey through a German no–man’s–land, from the Lüneburg Heath to the Bavarian Forest.

The old moving van with the film projectors in the back becomes a metaphor for the history of film and also covers themes of loneliness and postwar Germany.

Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road trailer.