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Kings of the Road

1976 · 177 min

A quiet, meandering road movie that immerses you in loneliness and slow-burning male friendship, demanding patience but rewarding with emotional depth.

Overview: Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
friendship
grief
identity
healing
Places: road trip
countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	2
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Written by: Wim Wenders
Starring: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler, Marquard Bohm, Hans Dieter Trayer, Franziska Stömmer, Patric Kreuzer
Music: Axel Linstädt
Cinematography: Robby Müller
Runtime: 177 min
Country: Germany
Languages: English, German

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