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Alice in den Städten

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Alice in den Städten
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NR,1hr 50min
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January 1, 1974
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Pacific Arts
Synopsis: Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten) was the first of German director Wim Wenders' films to be lensed in part in the United States. 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). Phillip takes Alice in hand on a trek across Germany to locate the girl's grandmother. The plot takes second place to Wenders' fascination with the contrast between the neon-and-billboard ... Full Synopsis
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Released the year after Paper Moon, another movie about an adult male and a young girl taking to the road, Wim Wenders' film is also in black-and-white, but there the similarities to Peter Bogdanovich's comic tale of con artists end. Wenders' central figure, writer Phillip Winter, is shown in the opening scenes blowing off an assignment to write his impressions of America for a German-language publication, ... Full Review
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