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Lightning Over Water

10/01/1980

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1hr 31min

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Documentary

STORY

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Wim Wenders
  • Nicholas Ray
  • Susan Ray
  • Tom Farrell
  • Ronee Blakley

    Directors

  • Nicholas Ray
  • Wim Wenders

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Basis-Film-Verleih GmbH

    Production Countries

  • Sweden
  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • French
  • German

Cast

Tom Farrell

Self

Ronee Blakley

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Gerry Bamman

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Craig Nelson

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