Alice in the Cities
The first of the road films that would come to define the career of Wim Wenders, the magnificent Alice in the Cities is an emotionally generous and luminously shot odyssey. A German journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) is driving across the United States to research an article; it’s a disappointing trip, in which he is unable to truly connect with what he sees. Things change, however, when he has no choice but to take a young girl named Alice (Yella Rottländer) with him on his return trip to Germany, after her mother (Lisa Kreuzer)—whom he has just met—leaves the child in his care. Though they initially find themselves at odds, the pair begin to form an unlikely friendship.
Special Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- German-language audio commentary featuring Wenders and actors Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer
- New interviews with Vogler, Rottländer, and actor Lisa Kreuzer
- Outtakes from the film
- Restoring Time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation
- Same Player Shoots Again (1967) and Silver City Revisited (1968), two newly restored early short films by Wenders
- New English subtitle translation by Wenders
Available In
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Special Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- German-language audio commentary featuring Wenders and actors Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer
- New interviews with Vogler, Rottländer, and actor Lisa Kreuzer
- Outtakes from the film
- Restoring Time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation
- Same Player Shoots Again (1967) and Silver City Revisited (1968), two newly restored early short films by Wenders
- New English subtitle translation by Wenders
Cast
- Rüdiger Vogler
- Phillip “Phil” Winter
- Yella Röttlander
- Alice
- Elisabeth Kreuzer
- Alice’s mother
- Edda Köchl
- Angela
- Ernest Boehm
- Publisher
- Sam Presti
- Car dealer
- Lois Moran
- Airport hostess
- Didi Petrikat
- Friend in Frankfurt
- Hans Hirschmüller
- With
- Sibylle Baier
- Mirko
Credits
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Producer
- Wim Wenders
- Producer
- Peter Genée
- Producer
- Veith v. Fürstenberg
- Screenplay
- Wim Wenders
- Screenplay
- Veith v. Fürstenberg
- Director of photography
- Robby Müller
- Editor
- Peter Przygodda
- Editor
- Barbara v. Weitershausen
- Sound
- Martin Müller
- Assistant director
- Mickey Kley
- Assistant camera
- Martin Schäfer
- Rerecording mixer
- Paul Schöler
- Music
- Can
- Music
- Chuck Berry
- Music
- Gustav Mahler
- Music
- Canned Heat
- Music
- Deep Purple
- Music
- Count Five
- Music
- Stories
A scene from Alice in the Cities
