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.

• Wim Wenders Productions
• WDR
• Rüdiger Vogler
• Hanns Zischler
• Lisa Kreuzer
• Rudolf Schündler
• Marquard Bohm
• Hans Dieter Trayer
• Franziska Stömmer
• Patric Kreuzer