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Lightning Over Water

1980·91'

Wim Wenders

Documentary

★ 6.7

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.

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Cast

Wim Wenders Wim Wenders Self
Nicholas Ray Nicholas Ray Self
Susan Ray Self
Tom Farrell Tom Farrell Self
Ronee Blakley Ronee Blakley Self
Gerry Bamman Gerry Bamman Self
Pierre Cottrell Self
Stefan Czapsky Stefan Czapsky Self
Mitch Dubin Self
Becky Johnston Self
Tom Kaufman Self
Pat Kirck Self

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