Directed by:
Wim WendersScreenplay:
Wim WendersCinematography:
Jürgen JürgesCast:
Wim Wenders, Udo Kier, Rüdiger Vogler, German Kral, Jürgen Jürges, Rolf Zacher, George Inci, Florian Gallenberger, Angelika KramlPlots(1)
Working with a group of Munich-based film students and acclaimed director Wim Wenders celebrates a century of cinema by reappraising the importance of the Skladanowsky Brothers, one of the pioneers of early cinema. Part docudrama, part experimental re-enactment, this is Wenders at his most playful and imaginative. Fictional recreations of the brothers’ development of the ‘bioskop’, a primitive version of the film projector, are framed by an interview with Max Skladanowsky’s surviving daughter, Lucie, whose reminiscences bring a forgotten world back to life. Ultimately, A Trick of Light is a meditation on the nature of film and its ability to capture the world around us, made by a director acutely aware of the medium’s limitations within a rapidly changing world. (British Film Institute (BFI))
(more)Cast
Wim Wenders
Best movies:
Kings of the Road (1976)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Summer in the City (1971)
Udo Kier
German Empire
Best movies:
The Kingdom (1994) (series)
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Rüdiger Vogler
German Empire
Best movies:
Kings of the Road (1976)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Die Kinderklinik (1993) (series)
German Kral
Argentina
Best movies:
The Other (2007)
Jürgen Jürges
German Empire
Rolf Zacher
German Empire
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
George Inci
Best movies:
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Ein starkes Team (1994) (series)
Florian Gallenberger
West Germany
Angelika Kraml
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
Tatort (1970) (series)