Until the End of the World

(1991)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 251 votes

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Adventure

Year: 1991

Runtime: 280 мин

Country: Germany, Australia

Director: Вим Вендерс

Cast: Solveig Dommartin, Уильям Хёрт, Сэм Нилл, Rüdiger Vogler, Макс фон Сюдов, Жанна Моро, Ernie Dingo, Chick Ortega, Eddy Mitchell, 笠智衆

Plot

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

Set in a futuristic 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with a pair of bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the stolen money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law (Hurt), an American who's being chased by the CIA. He claims the charges are false. The authorities want to confiscate a device his father invented which allows anyone to record their dreams and vision. On the run from both the bank robbers and the CIA, the couple span the globe, ending up in Australia at his father's (von Sydow) research facility, where they hope to play back the recordings Hurt captured for his blind mother. A subplot about a damaged Indian nuclear satellite crashing to Earth and causing the end of civilization is a puzzling, though significant, addition to the film.