Until the End of the World
- Solveig Dommartin: Claire Tourneur
- Pietro Falcone: Mario
- Enzo Turrin: Doctor
- Chick Ortega: Chico Remy
- Eddy Mitchell: Raymond Monnet
- Adelle Lutz: Makiko
- Ernie Dingo: Burt
- Jean -Charles Dumay: Mechanic
- Sam Neill: Eugene Fitzpatrick
- Rüdiger Vogler: Phillip Winter
Far Side of the World (English Until the End of the World; French Jusqu'au bout du monde ) is a German -French- Australian film drama directed by Wim Wenders from the year 1991.
Action
The film is set in 1999. An Indian satellite with nuclear material on board leaves uncontrolled orbit and is approaching Earth. There is reason for concern that parts of humanity and large tracts of land could be contaminated by a crash.
Claire Tourneur has separated from her boyfriend Raymond Monnet recently. Since then, she is restless road, rushing from party to party. She is caught in a traffic jam, which consists of a stampede out - has emerged - because of the Indian satellites. You leave the motorway and embarks on side streets. When overtaking their car collided with the car of two men. These turn out to be criminals who robbed a bank on the Nice airport. Claire is taken a share of the spoils when they deliver it to Paris. Along the way she learns Sam Farber (alias Trevor McPhee ) know - it's love at first sight.
Claire provides the money off at her boyfriend in Paris, recounting it immediately. After a strong grip in the till she departs again and embarks on the search for Sam.
Gradually only understand Claire and the audience the relationships. Sam is on behalf of his father, Dr. Henry Farber, on the road to record their greetings with a special camera to relatives around the world. Home to this camera project the images in the brain of his blind mother. The U.S. government has placed a bounty of $ 500,000 on Sam, since it is the special camera - an invention of his father - wants to get hold of.
It is followed by a chase around the globe. Sam has Claire, whose boyfriend Raymond and various bounty hunters in tow. Stations include Berlin, Portugal, Moscow, Vladivostok, Tokyo, San Francisco and the Australian bush.
As the protagonists arrive in Australia, the satellite is shot down by the Americans. Through the Nuclear EMP all electrical equipment be destroyed. It is feared that the explosion may have damaged other satellites, which could provoke further nuclear explosions. The journey is therefore the escape from a possible fallout of the continued existence of mankind remains questionable.
Arrived at the secret laboratory of Dr. Henry Farber, one immediately begins to project the images in the brain of mother Edith. After the successful completion of the experiment, Edith dies New Year celebrations 1999/2000. Henry dedicated to further experiments to visualize dreams. His co-workers from a strain of Aboriginal protest vehemently and would not participate in these experiments. Probably wants to establish correlations with the Dreamtime, the author here. The experiments prove to be a curse, all participants become addicts of their own dreams.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on January 17, 1992, the film is in proportion to the effort of its production, " not compelling ".
The lexicon of international film described the film as " ambitious" and wrote that he was a " gigantic travel, adventure, science fiction, music and love movie" thematize the "Searches for images." He was " fascinating in technology" and "complex in the processing of numerous motives ", the plot offers but " little room to develop an emotional sympathy for the fate of the characters ."
Awards
Wim Wenders won with Far Side of the World 1992 Guild Film Award in Gold.
Background
The film was shot in Berlin, Lisbon, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo, Venice, and in Australia. He played in the U.S. theatrical release, about 753,000 U.S. dollars. In France, there were approx. 377,000 moviegoers.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was posted in Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack Until The End of the World in January 1991. This yields the following songs will find:
About the recording of the soundtrack by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in the Hansa recording studios turned Uli M Schueppel 1990, the documentary film The Song. The film was released in a new version back in 2004.