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Until the End of the World

Year:

1991

Duration:

Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi

IMDB rate:

6.9

Director:

Wim Wenders

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Details

Country: Germany

Release Date: 1991-12-25

Filming Locations: Bavaria Studios, Bavariafilmplatz 7, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany

Earnings

Budget: $23,000,000

Gross: $752,856 (USA) Admissions 376,669 (France)

Cast

Actor

Character

Solveig Dommartin

Pietro Falcone

Mario

Enzo Turrin

Doctor

Chick Ortega

Chico Remy

Eddy Mitchell

Raymond Monnet

William Hurt

Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee

Adelle Lutz

Makiko

Ernie Dingo

Burt

Jean-Charles Dumay

Mechanic

Sam Neill

Eugene Fitzpatrick

Ernest Berk

Anton Farber

Christine Oesterlein

Irina Farber

Rüdiger Vogler

Phillip Winter

Diogo Dória

Receptionist

Amália Rodrigues

Woman in Street Car

Elena Prudnikova

Krasikova (as Yelena Smirnova)

Jinzhan Zhang

Truck Driver

Naoto Takenaka

Custodian

Hiroshi Kanbe

Hotel Guest

Yugi Ogata

Hotel Guest

Miwako Fujitani

Maid

Kuniko Miyake

Mrs. Mori

Chishû Ryû

Mr. Mori

Allen Garfield

Bernie, User Car Dealer

Alec Jason

Narcotics Agent

Lois Chiles

Elsa Farber

Lauren Graham

Heidi

David Gulpilil

David

Fred Walsh

Policeman

Charlie McMahon

Buzzer

Alfred Lynch

Old Man Alfred

Jeanne Moreau

Edith Farber

Justine Saunders

Maisie

Kylie Belling

Lydia

Bart Willoughby

Ned

Jimmy Little

Peter

Max von Sydow

Henry Farber

Rhoda Roberts

Ronda

Paul Livingston

Karl

Susan Leith

Nora Oliveira

Detlef Winterberg

Astronaut

Jean-Marie Rase

No character identified

Carmen Chaplin

No character identified

Dolores Chaplin

No character identified

Sylvette Dommartin

No character identified

Peter Przygodda

No character identified

Barbara Winters

Hella Winters

Michael Winters

No character identified

Erika Rabau

No character identified

Lothar Wildhirth

No character identified

Kazuhiko Uemura

No character identified

Eric Beaver

No character identified

Jerry Barrish

No character identified

Michelle Cook

No character identified

Bob Stewart

No character identified

David Byrne

Himself in music video (uncredited)

Tom Farrell

Madman in Bar (uncredited)

Tom Waits

Himself / Singer in Bar (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Wenders' original cut for the film came in at eight hours long.

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Wenders pitched his story idea to Australian author Peter Carey, hoping that Carey would write the screenplay. It took him six hours to tell Carey the story.

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The money just ran out to shoot in China, so actress Solveig Dommartin and one camera person surreptitiously shot the Chinese scenes in the film (seen on VideoFax in Paris by Eugene) completely on their own.

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Goofs

When many of the European characters leave the Mbantua settlement and take a group photo, believing the adventure to be over, the voice-over mentions that it is February, 2000. Yet shortly after we see Henry Farber trying a new series of experiments on recording dream imagery, and a computer display for the current experiment says January 21.

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When Bert is shown as the guitarist in Chico's impromptu band for the first time, he hands the guitar to the green-shirted man on the bridge while the rest of the band keeps playing. But when the scene cuts to a different angle, Bert is still playing the guitar.

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Quotes

Claire Tourneur: If I knew where he was, I would be with him; I would be making love with him! Why did I say that?

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Eugene Fitzpatrick: [looking speculatively at the "Bounty Bear" interface] How much would it take to set myself up with one of those, hard and soft?

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Edith Farber: Stay calm.

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