Falsche Bewegung (1975)

Director:

Wim Wenders

Writers:

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (novel)
Peter Handke (writer)

Release Date:

April 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn...

Plot Keywords:

Girl Man Relationship | Road Movie | Road | Based On Novel

Awards:

7 wins

Cast

Rüdiger Vogler	...	Wilhelm
Hans Christian Blech	...	Laertes
Hanna Schygulla	...	Therese Farner
Nastassja Kinski	...	Mignon (as Nastassja Nakszynski)
Peter Kern	...	Bernhard Landau
Ivan Desny	...	Industrieller / The Industrialist
Marianne Hoppe	...	Mutter / The Mother
Lisa Kreuzer	...	Janine (as Elisabeth Kreuzer)
Adolf Hansen	...	Schaffner (as Adolph Hansen)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gustav Leonhardt	...	Johann Sebastian Bach, form film 'Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach' (archive footage)

Also Known As:

False Movement
The Wrong Move (UK)
The Wrong Movement (USA) (video title)
Falso movimiento (Colombia) (Spain) [es]
Falso movimento (Italy) [it]
Faux mouvement (France) [fr]
Lathos kinisi (Greece) [el]
Movimento Falso (Brazil) [pt]
Movimento em Falso (Portugal) [pt]
Téves mozdulat (Hungary) [hu]
Wrong Move (Finland) (DVD title) [fi]

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:12 (f) | Brazil:12 | Finland:K-15 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Boppard, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Company:

Albatros Produktion

Movie Connections:

Features Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

Soundtrack:

Goldberg Variation, 25 Variation

A masterpiece

Many people spring to life when expressing their contempt for Wim Wenders' films, pushing themselves toward new heights of eloquence...and for that reason I usually keep my admiration for him to myself but this movie and the Goalie's Anxiety (not the easiest film to watch) really hit the nail on the head. Incredible portraits of people (in this case men) who have itches that they just can't scratch! In one scene the "hero" listens to the ex-Nazi make some crack about Jesse Owens getting the gold medal and he says,"..so you wouldn't have stood on the platform next to a black man?" and I thought, "I would give anything to see an American movie with a conversation as half as real as this!" You think Wenders is boring? Ok, fine, he's boring. But American movies are phony, like Mcdonald's french fries, they're treated with formaldahyde to maintain their "natural" color.