Rent Until the End of the World (1991)
3.2 of 5 from 100 ratings
2h 31min
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- Synopsis:
- Set in an alternate 1999 it presents a world living under the threat of quiet annihilation as a nuclear satellite spirals out of its orbit and back to Earth. As human beings seem to put their lives on hold, a young woman is chased across the globe with a mysterious fugitive who has absconded with a secret government project that might perhaps alter the fate of mankind itself.
- Actors:
- William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin, Chick Ortega, Eddy Mitchell, Adelle Lutz, Ernie Dingo, Jean-Charles Dumay, Sam Neill, Ernest Berk, Christine Oesterlein, Rüdiger Vogler, Diogo Dória, Amália Rodrigues, Elena Prudnikova, Jinzhan Zhang, Naoto Takenaka, Hiroshi Kanbe, Yugi Ogata
- Directors:
- Wim Wenders
- Producers:
- Jonathan T. Taplin, Anatole Dauman
- Writers:
- Peter Carey, Wim Wenders, Solveig Dommartin, Michael Almereyda
- Aka:
- Bis ans Ende der Welt
- Studio:
- Metrodome
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
- Collections:
- A History of Films Set In The Future, Getting to Know..., Remembering: Max von Sydow, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Wim Wenders
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 12/12/2022
- Run Time:
- 287 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo, French LPCM Stereo, German LPCM Stereo, Italian LPCM Stereo, Japanese LPCM Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Interview with Wim Wenders
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurette "Sketchbook"
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (2) of Until the End of the World
The Ultimate Road Movie - Until the End of the World review by Johannes
Wim Wenders’ interest in landscapes and their lone inhabitants achieved its greatest expression in the elegiac road-movie of Paris, Texas, namely the raggedy love story of Travis and Jane Henderson — two people beckoned by the possibilities of the road, by its reach and escape. Wenders’ films draw their oxygen from the road, and his previous trilogy of “road-movies” — Alice in the Cities (1974), Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976) — openly embrace the complexities of life whilst puttering along the backroads of West Germany and the US.
Until the End of the World is a continuation of these journeys, confidently migrating Wenders’ itinerants across the globe, with the iconography of almost every continent given to his European witness. Here, Wenders takes the road to its farthest limits — the ultimate example, and indulgence, of the "road movie" — carrying several misfits along the way. This is beautiful and completely maddening cinema.
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A monster of a movie - Until the End of the World review by PM
A monster that is difficult to take your eyes off, and it's also quite a size in more ways than one. If you have enjoyed other Wim Wenders films you will very likely enjoy this one. It's not quite as avant garde as "Wings of Desire" but has a lot more going on than "Paris, Texas". Great acting, great storytelling and great cinema. There are however one or two what you might call "continuity" irritations, which dent the plausibility of the storyline, but if you accept this as being one of the consequences of having an unlimited budget, then it is an opportunity to discover something also about the dynamics of film making.
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