Kings of the Road

Im Lauf der Zeit

Wim Wenders’ remarkable road-movie follows two men as they travel through a country in the midst of momentous change.

  • Director

    Wim Wenders

  • With

    Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler

  • Germany 1976. 176min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    18

  • English subtitles

Devised as a self-funded tour around ailing cinemas on the border between East and West Germany, Wenders took to the road with a handful of actors, a small crew and a few pages of script. The result is an epic meditation on cinema, cultural displacement and history. A combination of road movie and Bildungsroman, Kings of the Road ended a trilogy that began with Alice in the Cities and Wrong Move, and remains one of the greatest examples of the genre.