Lightning over Water

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Genre:Documentary
Production:Basis-Film-Verleih GmbH
Released:1980-10-01
IMDB:tt0081055

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.

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Cast

Wim Wenders

Nicholas Ray

Susan Ray

Tom Farrell

Ronee Blakley

Gerry Bamman

Pierre Cottrell

Stefan Czapsky

Mitch Dubin

Becky Johnston

Tom Kaufman

Pat Kirck

Edward Lachman

Martin Müller

Craig Nelson

Timothy Ray

Martin Schäfer

Chris Sievernich

Jim Jarmusch

Peter Przygodda

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