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Yella Rottländer | ... |
Alice
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Lisa Kreuzer | ... |
Lisa - Alice's Mother
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Edda Köchl | ... |
Angela - Friend in New York
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Ernest Boehm | ... |
Publisher
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Sam Presti | ... |
Car Dealer
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Lois Moran | ... |
Airport Hostess
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Didi Petrikat | ... |
Friend in Frankfurt
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Hans Hirschmüller | ... |
Police Officer
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Sibylle Baier | ... |
The Woman
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Mirko |
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German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer's block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected. After returning to Europe, the innocent friendship between Winter and Alice grows as they travel together through various European cities on a quest for Alice's grandmother. Written by Karl Engel <cassiel@ix.netcom.com>
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Country:
West GermanyRelease Date:
17 May 1974 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Alice in the Cities See more »Filming Locations:
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Schiphol, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands See more »Box Office
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DEM 500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Philip 'Phil' Winter: The inhuman thing about American TV is not so much that they hack everything up with commercials, though that's bad enough, but in the end all programmes become commercials. Commercials for the status quo. Every image radiates the same disgusting and nauseated message. A kind of boastful contempt. Not one image leaves you in peace, they all want something from you.
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Crew are reflected in the side of the car (at around 46 mins) (sound man, microphone and other crew) See more »Quotes
Lisa - Alice's Mother: What are you writing?Philip 'Phil' Winter: The inhuman thing about American TV is not so much that they hack everything up with commercials, though that's bad enough, but in the end all programmes become commercials. Commercials for the status quo. Every image radiates the same disgusting and nauseated message. A kind of boastful contempt. Not one image leaves you in peace, they all want something from you.
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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.