UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
1991

Director:
Wim Wenders

Screenplay:
Wim Wenders
Peter Carey

Director of Photography:
Robby Müller

Editor:
Peter Przygodda

Musical Score:
Graeme Revell

Music:
U2, Talking Heads,
Lou Reed, T-Bone Burnett, Peter Gabriel, Can, Elvis Costello, Crime and the City Solution, Robbie Robertson and Blue Nile, Patti Smith and Fred Smith, R.E.M., Depeche Mode, Daniel Lanois, Neneh Cherry, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Jane Siberry with K.D. Lang

Production Design: Thierry Flamand
Sally Campbell

Cast:
William Hurt
Solveig Dommartin
Max von Sydow
Sam Neill
Ernie Dingo
Rüdiger Vogler
Jeanne Moreau

Festivals/Awards:
1989 Gildepreis in Gold for Best German Film

Producers:
Anatole Dauman
Jonathan Taplin
Ulrich Felsberg

Production:
Road Movies Filmproduktion/Berlin Argos Films/Paris

Length:
179 min. Director's Cut: 270 min.

Format:
35mm Colour

Original Title:
Until the End of the World

Original Language:
English

Until The End of the World is an odyssey for the modern age. As with Homer's Odyssey, the purpose of the journey is to restore sight -- a spiritual reconciliation between an obsessed father and a deserted son. Dr. Farber, in trying to find a cure for his wife's blindness, has created a device that allows the user to send images directly to the brain, enabling the blind to see.


The creation and operation of such a machine is in stark contrast to a deteriorating global situation, where the continued existence
of mankind is under threat from a nuclear powered satellite that is falling toward earth.







Until The End of the World is a tale
of love and hope -- a metaphor for
the journey we must
all take toward our future…
the ultimate road movie.