Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit) (1976)

Directed by Wim Wenders · Cinematography by Robby Müller

175 min64 frames

Drama

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What is Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit) about?

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 is a 1976 German road film directed by Wim Wenders. It was the third part of Wenders' "Road Movie trilogy" which included Alice in the Cities (1974) and The Wrong Move (1975). It was the unanimous winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.

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What does the cinematography of Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit) look like?

Across 64 sampled frames, Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit) builds its coverage from medium shots (55% of the sample), with wide compositions (31%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Robby Müller keeps 61% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 61% of the frames.

What is the color palette of Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit)?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit) (1976) are #020202, #8c8c8c, #fcfcfc, #c9c9c9, #6f6f6f, #303030 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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  • #6f6f6f
  • #303030

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