Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly through the city streets and spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theatre.
Direction
Wenders turns Vienna into a character of indifferent architecture.
Cinematography
Long takes that dare you to look away first.
Writing
Handke's dialogue: what people don't say matters most.
Director
Wim Wenders
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wenders and Peter Handke wrote the screenplay in three weeks, adapting Handke's own short story written in a single sitting.
This became a founding text of New German Cinema alongside Fassbinder and Herzog — though Wenders later admitted he barely understood what he was making at 29.
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