1980
6.6 (30 votes)
1h 31m
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Basis-Film-Verleih GmbH
Lightning Over Water
Overview
Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.
Key Crew
Director: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
Writer: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
Producer: Pierre Cottrell, Chris Sievernich, Wim Wenders
Director of Photography: Edward Lachman, Martin Schäfer
