Lisbon Story (1994 film)
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| Directed by | Wim Wenders |
| Written by | Wim Wenders |
| Produced by | Paulo Branco Ulrich Felsberg João Canijo Wim Wenders |
| Starring | Rüdiger Vogler Patrick Bauchau |
| Cinematography | Lisa Rinzler |
| Edited by | Peter Przygodda Anne Schnee |
| Music by | Jürgen Knieper Madredeus |
| Distributed by | Atalanta Filmes (Portugal) |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Countries | Germany Portugal France Spain |
| Languages | German Portuguese English |
Lisbon Story (
Plot
Lisbon Story is partially a sequel to Wenders' 1982 film, The State of Things. The fictitious film director in the previous film, Friedrich Munro, reappears, again played by Patrick Bauchau.
In Lisbon Story Friedrich has moved to
The sound engineer doesn't meet up with the director until the end of the movie, when it materialises that, disturbed by the commercialization of images, he had set out to capture what he terms the "unseen image" of the city, one devoid of the subjective view (executed by strapping a rolling camera onto his back, or carried about unaimed in plastic bags with holes cut for the lens), and then shown to no one, lest the source of the photo "die" with their viewing. This is after giving up on his initial project shot using an early hand-cranked motion picture camera, what he calls "pretending that the whole history of cinema had never happened." After this meeting, Winter leaves his own message for Friedrich using sound, his medium, and convinces him to continue his original project using the old-fashioned camera and his sound, together.
A semi-non-fictional aspect of the plot is the appearance of the internationally famous Portuguese folk music group Madredeus and Manoel de Oliveira.
Homage to The Road Movie Trilogy
During the mid-1970s, Wim Wenders made three films which critics have called 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 writer 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
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Rüdiger Vogler | Philip Winter
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| Patrick Bauchau | Friedrich Monroe |
| Vasco Sequeira | Truck Driver |
| Canto e Castro | Barber |
| Viriato José da Silva | Shoemaker |
| João Canijo | Crook |
| Ricardo Colares | Ricardo |
| Joel Cunha Ferreira | Zé |
| Sofia Bénard da Costa | Sofia |
| Vera Cunha Rocha | Vera |
| Elisabete Cunha Rocha | Beta |
| Teresa Salgueiro | Herself (Madredeus) |
| Pedro Ayres Magalhães | Himself (Madredeus) |
| Rodrigo Leão | Himself (Madredeus) |
| Gabriel Gomes | Himself (Madredeus) |
| José Peixoto | Himself (Madredeus) |
| Francisco Ribeiro | Himself (Madredeus) |
| Manoel de Oliveira | Himself |
Reception
In Portugal, the film was the fourth most popular Portuguese film in 1995 with admissions of 16,000.[3]
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Lisbon Story". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ^ Santos, Marcelino (2007). "The image of the city – Wim Wenders' Lisbon Story". City + Cinema: Essays on the specificity of location in film. No. 29. Datutop.
- ^ "Portugal 1995 Domestic Top 10". Screen International. 5 April 1996. p. 25.
