Stars: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Max Von Sydow, Sam Neill, Jeanne Moreau

Director: Wim Wenders

Summary: It's 1999. Our planet is on its way to oblivion. Two strangers meet up on a road to Paris and begin the adventure of a lifetime. Soundtrack features U2, Peter Gabriel, Bian Eno, Talking Heads, REM and Neneh Cherry.

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Shot on location in numerous countries, this ambitious Wim Wenders fantasy takes Sam Neill, Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt and a ragtag group in pursuit around the world and back again. Though set in 1999 under the shadow of impending disaster as a wobbly nuclear satellite threatens to Chernobyl the planet, the leisurely gait of their worldwide escapades has a distinctly 1940s-era decadence. The ultimate object of their quest is a machine that records visual information from one person and reconstructs it in the brains of others--granting the miraculous power of sight to the blind for one thing, but even more mystically, enabling a person's dreams to be recorded. When the film seeks resolutions on the most intimate questions of the human soul which dovetail with the possibility of a destroyed world, the film is hampered by the VHS running time, which subtracts several hours from other versions. But numerous joys, not least among them Jeanne Moreau and Max von Sydow as Hurt's parents, inhabit this thought-provoking film. --Alan E. Rapp, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Exclusive essay on Wim Wenders
Year:	1991
Release Date:	February 26, 2007
Runtime:	158 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	M T D 5248
Keywords:	World, General, End, Fiction, Science, Until, Horror, Rescheduled, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Science Fiction