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A Trick of the Light is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Wim Wenders with Udo Kier
A Trick of the Light (1995)
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Add to a movie listA Trick of Light is a 1995 German film directed by Wim Wenders. Its original German title is Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky, the film made with the students of the Munich Film Academy is a combination of docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography to show the birth of cinema in Berlin where Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil built a projector they called the Bioscop.
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Une perle rare de narration cinématographique qui mêle docudrame, reconstitution fictionnelle et photographie expérimentale dans une œuvre puissante et réfléchie sur les débuts du cinéma allemand. Le film raconte l'histoire des frères Skladanowsky, le duo d'origine allemande à l'origine de l'invention du "bioskop", une première version du projecteur de films.Actors
Udo Kier
(Max Skladanowsky)
Rüdiger Vogler
(Hochradfahrer)
Wim Wenders
(Regisseur / Milchmann)
Florian Gallenberger
(Ton-Assistent)
Rolf Zacher
(Max Skladanowsky (voice))
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