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| Michelangelo Antonioni | ... |
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| Maroun Bagdadi | ... |
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| Ana Carolina | ... |
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| Mike De Leon | ... |
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| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | ... |
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| Jean-Luc Godard | ... |
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| Romain Goupil | ... |
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| Yilmaz Güney | ... |
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| Monte Hellman | ... |
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| Werner Herzog | ... |
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| Robert Kramer | ... |
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| Paul Morrissey | ... |
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| Susan Seidelman | ... |
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| Noël Simsolo | ... |
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| Steven Spielberg | ... |
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Directed by
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Written by
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Produced by
| Michel Boujut | ... | producer |
| Chris Sievernich | ... | producer |
| Claude Ventura | ... | producer |
| Wim Wenders | ... | producer |
Music by
| Jürgen Knieper | ||
Cinematography by
| Agnès Godard | ||
Editing by
| Chantal de Vismes | ||
Editorial Department
| Philipp Orgassa | ... | digital restoration colorist |
Sound Department
| Jean-Paul Mugel | ... | sound |
Additional Crew
| Robert Niosi | ... | title designer |
Production Companies
- Chris Sievernich Filmproduktion
- Films A2
- France 2 (FR2)
- Gray City
- Wim Wenders Productions
- Wim Wenders Stiftung
Distributors
- Europa Filmes (2007) (Brazil) (DVD) (Portuguese subtitles)
- Gray City (1985) (United States) (subtitled)
- Kinowelt Home Entertainment (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
- Ripley's Film (2006) (Italy)
- Ripley's Home Video (2002) (Italy) (DVD)
- Sandrew Metronome Distribution (2009) (Finland) (DVD)
- The Criterion Channel (2024) (United States) (tv) (streaming)
- Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC) (2005) (Japan) (DVD)
- Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC) (2006) (Japan) (DVD)
- VIGGO (2015) (Italy)
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Storyline
| Plot Summary |
During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, into the same hotel room to answer in solitude the same question about the future of cinema, while they were filmed with a 16mm camera and recorded with a Nagra sound recorder. In social sciences the goal of standardization is that each person is exposed to the same question experience, and that the recording setting of answers is the same, too, so that any differences in the answers can be correctly interpreted as reflecting differences between persons rather than differences in the process that produced the answer. The wide sampling frame in "Room 666" included European 'auteurs' and Hollywood directors, narrative and experimental filmmakers, male and female professional film directors that presented their films or were simply present at the 35th Cannes Festival in May 1982. The directors came from France, Italy, Brazil, Lebanon, Germany, Turkey, the Philippines and the USA. This unique documentary shows the complete footage (or selected parts) of the 15 answers that resulted from this 'standardized survey interviews'. The historical value of "Room 666" has increased over time: The 5 directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yilmaz Güney, Maroun Bagdadi, Robert Kramer and Michelangelo Antonioni have died since then in this order. Fassbinder died only a few weeks later on June 10th 1982 and gave his last 'interview' in "Room 666". Written by Anonymous |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder died a few week after this short documentary. That's why Wenders included the ominous music after his interview. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Edited into Back to Room 666 (2008). See more » |