

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
Cinematography
Lisbon's light captured like Wenders is trying to steal it.
Score
Madredeus and Teresa Salgueiro will wreck you gently.
Direction
Wenders interrogating his own obsession with watching.

Director
Wim Wenders
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Manoel de Oliveira appears as himself — he was 86 and still directing, making Wenders look like a baby.
Madredeus became international stars after this; their album 'O Espírito da Paz' is essentially the film's emotional blueprint.
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