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6:00 PM

Wim Wenders Retrospective: "Alice in the Cities"

Film

  • Goethe-Institut Äthiopien, Addis Abeba

Alice in den Städten © StudioCanal Deutschland

Accepted to be one of Wenders’ most poignant films and often compared to Chaplin’s The Kid, Alice in the Cities was the first of Wim Wenders’ films to be shot partly in the United States and subsequently won the 1974 German Critics Prize.
 
Phillip (Rüdiger Vogler) is a roving German reporter who, after a chance encounter with an elusive American woman, reluctantly accepts temporary custody of little Alice (Yella Rottländer).
Their friendship grows while travelling through various European cities on a search for the girl’s grandmother.

Director: Wim Wenders
Length: 110 minutes
Year: 1973
 
The film will be shown in German with English subtitles.