Kings of the road [DVD video]

A roving film projector repairman saves the life of depressed psychologist who has driven his Volkswagen into a river, and they end up on the road together, traveling from one rural German movie theater to another. Along the way, the two men, each running from his past, bond over their shared loneliness. Kings of the road, captured in gorgeous compositions by cinematographer Robby Müller and dedicated to Fritz Lang, is a love letter to the cinema, a moving and funny tale of male friendship, and a portrait of a country still haunted by war. Also contains a disc with supplements.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.

Widescreen (1.66:1).

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation and supervised by director Wim Wenders; Audio commentary featuring Wenders; German-language audio commentary featuring Wenders; New interviews with Wenders, directed and conducted by filmmaker Michael Almereyda; New interviews with actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, and Lisa Kreuzer; Restoring time, a 2015 short about the restoration work done by the Wim Wenders Foundation; Same player shots again (1967) and Silver City revisited (1968), two newly restored early short films by Wenders; new English subtitle translation by Wenders.

Performers:

Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler, Marquard Bohm.

Contents:

Disc 1. Kings of the road -- Disc 2. Supplements.

Technical Details:

DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66:1); 5.1 Dolby digital.

Subject Term:

Projectors -- Maintenance and repair -- Drama.

Psychologists -- Drama.

Automobile travel -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.