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Kings of the Road

1976, 2h 56min

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

"Kings of the Road" — drama movie produced in Germany and released in 1976. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.7 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 2h 56min. "Kings of the Road" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel and for rent and to buy on Apple TV and YouTube Movies. Click on a playlink to watch it now!

Country: Germany

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Hanns Zischler,

Rudolf Schündler,

Rüdiger Vogler

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Critic David Parkinson

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8

A complex work...

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Michael Thomsen

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9

3 timers sort/hvid male bonding road movie, på grænsen til det gamle øst-tyskland i 1970erne. Og det er bare FEDT!

2 years ago

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