The Wrong Move (1975)
"Falsche Bewegung" (original title)

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an ... See full summary »

Director:

Wim Wenders

Writers:

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (novel), Peter Handke (screenplay)

Stars:

Rüdiger Vogler, Hans Christian Blech, Hanna Schygulla

6 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Rüdiger Vogler	...	Wilhelm
Hans Christian Blech	...	Laertes
Hanna Schygulla	...	Therese Farner
Nastassja Kinski	...	Mignon (as Nastassja Nakszynski)
Peter Kern	...	Bernhard Landau
Ivan Desny	...	Industrieller / The Industrialist
Marianne Hoppe	...	Mutter / The Mother
Lisa Kreuzer	...	Janine (as Elisabeth Kreuzer)
Adolf Hansen	...	Schaffner (as Adolph Hansen)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gustav Leonhardt	...	Johann Sebastian Bach, form film 'Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach' (archive footage)

Storyline

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change. An actress, whom Wilhelm gazes at, joins them. Then, a plump young man introduces himself, having heard them talk of poetry. He takes them to his uncle's, except it's the wrong house; they interrupt a man's suicide. He invites them to stay. The actress tries to connect to Wilhelm. Couplings and rare bursts of feeling come as surprises; other characters remain alone.

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Plot Keywords:

road movie | girl man relationship | based on novel

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

April 1979 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Wrong Movement

Filming Locations:

Boppard, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

DEM 620,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Albatros Produktion, Solaris Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Features The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

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Soundtracks

"Goldberg Variation, 25 Variation"
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach

User Reviews

A masterpiece

Many people spring to life when expressing their contempt for Wim Wenders' films, pushing themselves toward new heights of eloquence...and for that reason I usually keep my admiration for him to myself but this movie and the Goalie's Anxiety (not the easiest film to watch) really hit the nail on the head. Incredible portraits of people (in this case men) who have itches that they just can't scratch! In one scene the "hero" listens to the ex-Nazi make some crack about Jesse Owens getting the gold medal and he says,"..so you wouldn't have stood on the platform next to a black man?" and I thought, "I would give anything to see an American movie with a conversation as half as real as this!" You think Wenders is boring? Ok, fine, he's boring. But American movies are phony, like Mcdonald's french fries, they're treated with formaldahyde to maintain their "natural" color.