In the words of Robert Frank, Hunter is about “. . . a man whose destiny is not to find a destination. . . . A man who fears that he will never find what his imagination compels him to look for, a mystical traveler going by train and by car through . . . language and landscape.” The film was shot entirely on location in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region in September/October 1989.
Cinematography
Bleak Ruhr industrial landscapes as psychological terrain.
Direction
Frank's experimental eye from iconic photobooks brought to film.
Director
Robert Frank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in September/October 1989, mere weeks before the Berlin Wall fell—making its portrait of industrial Germany a document of a vanishing world.
Robert Frank, legendary photographer behind 'The Americans,' brought his fragmented, off-kilter visual language to cinema—Hunter extends his obsession with outsiders and failed communication.
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