Lightning Over Water

(1980)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 33 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1980

Runtime: 116 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Вим Вендерс, Nicholas Ray

Cast: Вим Вендерс, Nicholas Ray, Susan Ray, Tom Farrell, Рони Блейкли, Gerry Bamman, Pierre Cottrell, Stefan Czapsky, Mitch Dubin, Becky Johnston

Plot

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.