Lisbon Story

Name: Lisbon Story
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 1994
Duration: 100 min
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Vasco Sequeira, Canto e Castro, Viriato Jose da Silva

Wim Wenders19941h 40mMusic, Drama

Why we chose it

Lisbon asked Wim Wenders for a film to mark its year as European Capital of Culture, and he made a melancholy story that smells of the sea and celebrates the sounds of the city. Manoel de Oliveira, a legend of Portuguese cinema, explains what cinema is for, while Madredeus play fado. Just listen.

Synopsis

A postcard from Lisbon reaches a German sound engineer: come, I’m making a film here and I need sound. So Philip Winter sets off, only to find a flat full of film cans and no sign of the director, Friedrich, and nobody can tell him when he’ll be back. Rather than wait, Winter picks up his boom mic and heads out to record the city.