Lisbon Story (1994)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Wim Wenders

Writer:

Wim Wenders (writer)

Release Date:

12 May 1995 (Portugal)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent b&w movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend...

Plot Keywords:

Sound | Shoeshine Boy | Music | Flat Tire | Film Making

Cast

Rüdiger Vogler	...	Phillip Winter
Patrick Bauchau	...	Friedrich Monroe
Vasco Sequeira	...	Truck Driver
Canto e Castro	...	Barber
Viriato Jose 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)

Also Known As:

Lisbonne Story
Viagem a Lisboa (Portugal)

MPAA:

Rated PG for some language and brief smoking.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Germany | Portugal

Language:

English | Portuguese | German

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG | Finland:K-16 | Germany:6 (f) (w) | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Frankfurt/Main, Hesse, Germany

Company:

Madragoa Filmes

Trivia:

"Ah não ser eu toda a gente e toda a parte!". This phrase (roughly translated as "Would I be everybody and everywhere!"), written in one of the walls of the house where Winter's staying, is the last verse of "Ode Triunfal", a poem by Álvaro de Campos, one of the three main heteronyms of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Quotes:

Phillip Winter: Listen. You have to guess what this is.
[makes sound of horse running]
Beta: A horse! He's afraid!
Zé: Yeah, horse!
Vera: That's it!
Sofia: He's running very fast! He's galloping!
Phillip Winter: Right. And who is always on a horse?
Zé: A cowboy.
Phillip Winter: Right. And now...
[makes sound of lighting a match]
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929)

Soundtrack:

She Brings The Rain

This film is food for the soul.

"The thought is getting born blind, but it knows what is watching".. Today I saw the movie again. Actually, it was again, and again..for I don't know how many times since Wenders made it.

Who wouldn't get in love with Portugal, after seeing it..The people and country of Saudade. I won't explain you what it means, only real Portuguese know that. And even if I would like to explain,it is pointless..That can't be described, but maybe you can recognize it in Teresa's voice and landscape of Tejo who is the only witness of their lives. This story don't need actors to tell it because it is not only story between Fillip and Friedrich, but about the secrets that are hiding in wrinkles of people faces, in old aqueduct and walls of houses in Lisbon.

I hope that you get that desire to see and hear those secrets as much as I did.