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Kings of the Road 1976 123movies

Kings of the Road 1976 123movies

Mar. 04, 1976176 Min.
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Watch: Im Lauf der Zeit 1976 123movies, Full Movie Online – Near the Eastern borders with West Germany, Bruno, a solitary, permanent citizen of the road and film projection equipment repairman, witnesses the sad sight of a VW beetle car storming straight into the River Elbe. After a while, however, the depressed driver, Robert, instinctively accepts an offer for a lift in Bruno’s repair van, and just like that, an impromptu relationship begins. Now, against the backdrop of the German countryside, the new companions find themselves sharing the same need for freedom, visiting dilapidated movie theatres for maintenance, and getting to know each other one small town after another. But, no one knows, or cares, how long is the road that stretches out ahead of them. After all, the only thing that matters is one’s commitment to a precious ideal. Have the kings of the road found life’s true meaning?.
Plot: 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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the king of the road movies
The Wim Wenders retrospective at the local cinematheque provided us this week the opportunity to see the most famous film in the series of the ‘road movies’ made by the German director more than four decades ago. ‘Kings of the Road’ (the original title in German is ‘Im Lauf der Zeit’ which would mean ‘Over the Time’) is, in my opinion, one of the masterpieces of the genre, a reference film, a film whose beauty has not diminished over time, but on the contrary, seems to have been accentuated and amplified, gaining new meanings from the perspective of time.

The comparison with Dennis Hopper’s ‘Easy Rider’ is inevitable. I’m sure that Wenders knew well and loved this movie. His heroes depicted on screen by Rüdiger Vogler and Hanns Zischler are not necessarily marginals such as those played by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, but same as the ones in the American movie, they cannot care less about social conventions, and choose the roads as a way of life. Roads mean running away and discovering. Self-discovery before anything else. Roads mean taking life as it is, meeting other people, trying to communicate, to connect one loneliness with another. From ‘Easy Rider’ and ‘Kings of the Road’ we learn and understand more about the America of the late 1960s or about Germany in the mid-1970s than from dozens of other books or movies.

Wenders’ film has a second theme parallel to the one of roads – it’s the decaying cinema houses. One of the film’s heroes lives out of maintaining the projection equipment of the old cinemas in the small rural German villages. A job that becomes increasingly useless. Wenders anticipates Giuseppe Tornatore’s “Cinema Paradiso” for over a decade. 30 years after the end of the Second World War, the ruined Germany was disappearing, taking with it signs and symbols of a way of life that had not only negative aspects. The two characters of the film, apparently lost in a world dominated by order, are actually the symbols of a lost freedom.

‘Kings of the Road’ lasts three hours, three hours spent by the two characters in a truck, on country roads along the temporary border between the two Germanies, between one cinema already in ruins to another, or to one that still functions without spectators. Not much seems to happen in the movie. And yet the three hours pass quickly, like in a spell, because every minute is full of artistic substance, full of life.

Review By: dromasca
Get on board the Winter & Lander Express!
Considering the length and weight of his oeuvre, my exposure to the cinema of Wim Wenders is a limited one to say the least. This inexperience stems not from a lack of viewing opportunities, but an apprehension instilled in me after a succession of run-ins with some of his lesser achievements, such as the patience testing ‘Until The End Of The World’ and ‘Faraway, So Close’.

It was with a thick air of trepidation then, that I slipped the German auteur’s 1976 opus ‘Kings of the Road’ into the DVD tray and positioned myself nervously on the couch in preparation for a potential 176 minute assault of self-indulgent monotony. I watched the first hour beneath a cloud of ambivalence as the monochrome images and sparse dialogue crawled by at tortoise speed with any blip of a detectable plot yet to appear on the radar.

The longer it went on however, the more snugly it began to slip under my skin, and the saga of Bruno Winter (Rudiger Vogler) – a truck-driving mechanic travelling across Germany to fix broken down projectors in dusty old picture houses – and Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler) – a depressed hitchhiker with a failed marriage behind him – began to gracefully reel me in from the waters of uncertainty and onto the shores for a warm embrace. At journey’s end, my mood was a gleeful mix of satisfaction and gratification: the best part of three hours in these charming men’s company had proved very rewarding indeed.

Bruno and Robert’s paths cross via the latter’s soggy, blackly comic suicide attempt, leading them down the long & winding road of decaying movie theatres, lonely hearts, unforgettable black & white images and a stunning soundtrack. And without really trying too hard, KOTR ends up as a far more worthy lament to the good old days of film-making than anything to be found in the pre-digested pap of ‘Cinema Paradiso’.

This is beautifully illustrated both in the prologue (where Bruno bends his ear to an elder statesman bemoaning the passing of cinema’s golden age) and a sequence in which our heroes manfully attempt to restore a matinée viewing gone awry whilst silhouetted behind the movie screen of a theatre full of impatient school children. The two men spontaneously burst into a Chaplinesque slapstick routine to the delight of their captive audience and end their performance in a laughing, gasping heap on the floor. They’re rudely awakened by a hangman’s style noose swinging ominously between them. For better or worse, things will change. A very poignant moment considering today’s climate of declining bums-on-seats in the cinema.

Another thing that jumped out at me, were the separate occasions in which Bruno and Robert cast their eyes over the front-page headlines of the daily newspapers; “Terror attack in Jerusalem” and “1 million unemployed” are the type-faces that flash momentarily on the screen, giving both men a firm tap on the shoulder as a reminder of the big-bad-world they’ve left behind. Blank facial expressions give nothing away as to what either man is thinking and Wenders cuts to the next scene before there’s any time to ponder the effects these news stories might have on the decisions concerning their chosen lifestyle. Whatever the case, it resonates loudly with the state of our own current affairs demonstrating at once, that nothing really changes, and what a fascinating, timeless work of art KOTR truly is.

All of these things might sound portentous and heavy handed, but Wenders never forces the issues, takes sides, or labours the point, instead opting for a relaxed narrative where everything unravels in its own time in a hands off, matter-of-fact fashion, leaving us with an elegiac, me-dative affair blessed from top to bottom with great, understated writing and performances.

Fans and critics alike seem to agree that the spare dialogue interaction between the protagonists signifies the difficulty of communication and self-expression that can lead to the breakup of a relationship, resulting in physical violence. This reading of the subtext is certainly not without merit, but as far as the central characters are concerned, I’d have to say I think it’s a much lighter movie than that.

Bruno & Robert’s nods, smiles and casual shrugs are all part of a silent language and mutual understanding that highlights their free-spiriting nature and genuine feel and affection for each other. There is no need for them to spout endless superlatives re the might of the road, or posture existentially on the magnitude of the landscapes, when they know (more likely than not) that they’re both thinking the same thing. Oh sure, they might bicker now and again, endure sadness and have the occasional strop, but so does everyone else on the planet. Everyone else likes to laugh from time to time too, so when the buck finally does stop (after an insipid, mirth-inducing ‘punch-up’) they go their separate ways with a smile and cheer of goodwill for each other. What could be sweeter than that?

I’m not the first (and will surely not be the last) to say that one could go on longer than the film itself hammering out endless analysis on its incidental delights, sensitivity, craftsmanship etc , so I’ll sign off by saying that Wenders’ masterful epic will certainly not be for everyone, but was most definitely for me. It’s quite possible I’ll still be on my guard when it comes to checking out his other titles (although I’m super-keen to see the first two parts of this trilogy – ‘Alice in the Cities’ & ‘The Wrong Move’), but when the mood takes me again, I’ll be more than happy to hitch another ride on board The Winter & Lander Express. When it comes to KOTR, Wim Wenders is the REAL ‘King of the World’!

Review By: bobhartshorn

Other Information:

Original Title Im Lauf der Zeit
Release Date 1976-03-04
Release Year 1976

Original Language de
Runtime 2 hr 55 min (175 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Wim Wenders
Writer Wim Wenders
Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer
Country West Germany
Awards 3 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL, Zeiss Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 4,760 m, 4,801 m (Sweden)
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 4K DCP, 35 mm

Kings of the Road 1976 123movies
Kings of the Road 1976 123movies
Kings of the Road 1976 123movies
Kings of the Road 1976 123movies
Kings of the Road 1976 123movies
Original title Im Lauf der Zeit
TMDb Rating 7.386 88 votes

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