Lisbon Story (1994 film)

Lisbon Story Portuguese O Cu de Lisboa Brasil, German Lisbon Story is a 1994 film directed by Wim Wenders. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Wenders, with three Portuguese filmmakers, had been invited by the City of Lisbon to make a documentary about the city, as part of their programme as the European City of Culture in 1994. The result was the fictional Lisbon Story.

The sound engineer doesnt meet up with the director until the end of the movie, when it materialises that, disturbed by the commercialization of images, he had set out to capture what he terms the unseen image of the city, one devoid of the subjective view, while also pretending that the whole history of cinema had never happened. A seminonfictional aspect of the plot is the appearance of the internationally famous Portuguese folk music group Madredeus and Manoel de Oliveira, who at that time was the oldest living active film director in the world.During the mid1970s, Wim Wenders made three films which he named The Road Movie Trilogy. Lisbon Story pays subtle homage to these films. The sound engineer in Lisbon Story, Philip Winter, has the same name and is played by the same actor Rdiger Vogler as the lead character in Alice in the Cities 1974, though the character Phil Winter was a writer in the first film. The name Winter is repeated in Kings of the Road 1976, also starring Vogler, although his full name in Kings is Bruno Winter and he is a projectionequipment mechanic. ........

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