Until the End of the World (1991) on Netflix
In 1999, Claire Tourneur meets two bank robbers who ask her to carry their stolen cash to Paris. She gives a ride to Trevor McPhee, who is fleeing an armed pursuer.
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Plot summary
In 1999, an Indian nuclear satellite is falling toward Earth, and southern France is named as a possible impact site. Claire Tourneur has been traveling across Europe when she is caught in a traffic jam there and takes a side road, where she meets two bank robbers. They ask her to carry their stolen cash to Paris in exchange for a share. On the way, she gives a ride to Trevor McPhee, who is trying to get away from an armed man named Burt.
Cast
- Ernest Berkas Anton Farber
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Until the End of the World (1991)
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- Wenders was contractually obligated to deliver a standard feature-length film, so he cut Until the End of the World to 158- and 179-minute "Reader's Digest" versions. He and editor Peter Przygodda secretly copied the film negatives at their own expense and spent a year making a 5-hour version.
- The initial cut of the film was reportedly 20 hours long; several shortened versions were commercially distributed or publicly screened.
- The dream sequences used early high-definition video. Wenders and technicians at NHK, then the only facility that could play back HD video, spent six weeks distorting the imagery, often recording a fast-forwarded image and playing it at normal speed.
- Wenders commissioned original songs from favorite recording artists for Until the End of the World, asking them to anticipate the music they would make a decade later, when the film is set. His desire to use every piece he received helped make the film as long as it turned out to be.
- German director Uli M Schueppel made a documentary about Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds recording "(I'll Love You) Till The End of the World." It was released in 1990 as The Song and re-released in 2004 under a new arrangement.
