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Lightning Over Water

Film

Lightning Over Water

6.6

1h 31m

1980

Synopsis

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.

Director

Wim Wenders

Nicholas Ray

Documentary

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Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders

as Self

Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray

as Self

Susan Ray

as Self

Tom Farrell

Tom Farrell

as Self

Ronee Blakley

Ronee Blakley

as Self

Gerry Bamman

Gerry Bamman

as Self

Pierre Cottrell

as Self

Stefan Czapsky

Stefan Czapsky

as Self

Mitch Dubin

as Self

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