Alabama (2000 Light Years)
5.8
"The film starts with a shot of a cassette recorder, and it has a juke box in it. There’s always music in it. When I was asked by some critics at a festival press conference what the film was all about, I said 'it’s about the song All Along The Watchtower, and the film is about what happens and what changes depending on whether the song is sung by Bob Dylan or by Jimi Hendrix.'" Well, both versions of the song appear in the film, and everybody thought I was pretty arrogant to explain the story this way. But the film really is about the difference between the Dylan version of All Along the Watchtower, and the Jimi Hendrix Version. One is at the beginning and one is at the end." – Wim Wenders
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Cast
10 people
Werner Schroeter
Known for
World on a Wire
Beware of a Holy Whore
King Ampaw
Known for
Cobra Verde
Wim Wenders
Known for
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Robby Müller
Also in
Cheaters
Norbert Losch
Also in
Praxis Dr. Hasenbein
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Christian Friedel
Known for
The Zone of Interest
The White Lotus
Paul Lys
Also in
Paul
Rocker
Peter Kaiser
Christian Thiele
Also in
Summer in the City
Muriel Werner
Also in
Summer in the City
Wim Wenders Director · Robby Müller Cinematographer
United States release October 17, 2015 · Produced in Germany · Production Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
Production
Wim Wenders Stiftung
Production
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
Production
Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · January 30, 1969
Theatrical
United States · October 17, 2015
Chicago, Illinois
Canada
November 2, 2015 · Vancouver, British Columbia
Portugal
April 19, 1977 · Porto Cineclube do Porto
Taiwan
November 26, 1999 · Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
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