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Director: Wim Wenders
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From Time Out Film Guide
Hawthorne's novel offers, however improbable a project, themes that connect with the main lines of Wenders' work: the central figure of the adulteress is an outsider in her own society, and the community of European immigrants are strangers in a strange land. But the movie is as uncharacteristic as you'd expect. Wenders made it (just after The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty) as a kind of exercise in fiction, and it definitely lacks the emotional conviction that usually distinguishes his work. But Wenders' admirers will find a lot to interest them. The only major weakness is Jürgen Knieper's excessive score.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Peter Genée, Primitivo Alvaro
Cast: Senta Berger, Hans Christian Blech, Lou Castel, Yelena Samarina, Yella Rottländer, William Layton full cast
Duration: 89 mins
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