Alice in the Cities
What can a melancholy German photographer do when an unknown young lady deposits her wise-looking 9-year-old daughter in his hands and disappears? Off they go, tracking back and forth to the phantom house of Alice’s grandmother.
What can a melancholy German photographer do when an unknown young lady deposits her wise-looking 9-year-old daughter in his hands and disappears? Off they go, tracking back and forth to the phantom house of Alice’s grandmother.
Wilhelm wants to be a writer but feels he lacks life experience so he hits the road on a poetic and symbolic journey of self-discovery. A free, haunting adaptation of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister which speaks about the German present.
After crashing his Volkswagen into a river, a man, fleeing his wife and kids, joins up with an itinerant film projectionist repairman who travels along the border between East and West Germany.