The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Kings of the Road
When
Wed 18 Mar 2026
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Wenders’ now-classic buddy movie is an elliptical road odyssey of two estranged men (Rüdiger Vogler and Hanns Zischler) traversing the nether regions of the East/West German border while servicing broken-down movie theatres. Powered by an idiosyncratic mix of 1960s pop music (heard and quoted by the characters) and Axel Lindstädt’s evocative score, Wenders’ existential narrative poetically charts the Americanisation of the German mindscape, the impoverishment and beauty of the stark modern landscape, and the inevitable death of the cinema. The final part of the director’s “road trilogy” following the previous year’s Wrong Move. With Lisa Kreuzer.
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