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Alice in den Städten (1974)
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17 May 1974 (West Germany) morePlot:
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States... more | add synopsisAwards:
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(Complete credited cast)| Rüdiger Vogler | ... | Philip 'Phil' Winter | |
| Yella Rottländer | ... | Alice | |
| Lisa Kreuzer | ... | Lisa - Alice's Mother (as Elisabeth Kreuzer) | |
| Edda Köchl | ... | Angela - Friend in New York | |
| Ernest Boehm | ... | Publisher | |
| Sam Presti | ... | Car Dealer | |
| Lois Moran | ... | Airport Hostess | |
| Didi Petrikat | ... | Friend in Frankfurt | |
| Hans Hirschmüller | ... | Police Officer | |
| Sibylle Baier | ... | The Woman |
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The references between Wenders' films and cinema in general are utterly diverse. They reach from direct hints and citations to more subliminal connections. And therefore, mainly the early films of De Sica resonate in Alice in the Cities, especially the neo-realistic masterpiece Ladri di biciclette. In the main protagonists' (journalist Philip and young girl Alice) search for her grandmother in the German Ruhrpott, we can see traces of the father's and his son's search for the bicycle in Rome. Both films are open for sidelong glances, for moments that don't want to give in the dramaturgic concept of the story. But, actually, you don't have to watch De Sica's film to lose yourself in the sheer beauty and poetry of Alice in the Cities, where documentary elements win over fiction and found pictures triumph over staged ones; when shots of moments fall out of the stream of images and reveal an almost boundless yearning.