- Lisbon Story
Infobox Film
name = Lisbon Story
director =Wim Wenders
producer =Paulo Branco Ulrich Felsberg João Canijo Wim Wenders
writer =Wim Wenders
starring =Rüdiger Vogler Patrick Bauchau
music =Jürgen Knieper Madredeus
cinematography =Liza Rinzler
editing =Peter Przygodda Anne Schnee
distributor =
released = 1994
runtime = 100 min
language = German / Portuguese / English
website = http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/lisbonstory/lisbon_story.htm
imdb_id = 0110361"Lisbon Story" (German title: "Viagem a Lisboa, Lisbonne Story") is a 1994 film directed by
Wim Wenders .Plot
"Lisbon Story" is partially a sequel to Wenders' 1982 film," The State of Things". The fictitious movie director in in the previous film, Friedrich Munro, reappears, again played by
Patrick Bauchau . In "Lisbon Story" Friedrich has moved toLisbon ,Portugal (the country in which "The State of Things" was set). The principal character,Philip Winter (Rüdiger Vogler ), a sound engineer, receives a postcard invitation from Fredrich to come to Lisbon to record sounds of the capital city for one of his films. This sets in motion a mysterious Wendersian quest. "Lisbon Story" features performance ofMadredeus , a famous Portuguese musical group, and a cameo byManoel de Oliveira , the oldest active director alive.Homage to "The Road Movie Trilogy"
During the mid-1970s, Wim Wenders made three films which he named "The Road Movie Trilogy". "Lisbon Story" pays subtle homage to these films. The sound engineer in "Lisbon Story", Philip Winter, has the same name and is played by the same actor (Rüdiger Vogler) as the lead character in "
Alice in the Cities " (1974), though the character Phil Winter was a photographer in the first film. The name Winter is repeated in "Kings of the Road " (1976), also starring Vogler, although his full name in "Kings" is Bruno Winter and he is a projection-equipment mechanic.Featured Cast
External links
*imdb title|id=0110361|title=Lisbon Story
* [http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/lisbonstory/lisbon_story.htm Official Website]
* [http://www.deep-focus.com/flicker/lisbonst.html Deep Focus Review]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
