Documentary
Lightning Over Water (1980)
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.
- Production
- Basis-Film-Verleih GmbH
Where to watch
Region US
Criterion Channel
flatrate
Cast
20 people
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Susan Ray
as Self
P
Pierre Cottrell
as Self
P
Pat Kirck
as Self
C
Craig Nelson
as Self
M
Martin Schäfer
as Self