A Trick of Light (1995)
- Original title
- Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky
- Directed by
- Wim Wenders
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film, biographical film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 58 min
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 18 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This film mixes documentary and drama to show how the Skladanowsky brothers built an early movie projector in 1890s Berlin. It follows their experiments and public shows using actors and old footage.
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What happens
A Trick of the Light (German: Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky "The Skladanowsky brothers") is a 1995 German biographical film directed by Wim Wenders. The film was made with the students of the University of Television and Film Munich and is a combination of docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography to show the birth of cinema in Berlin where Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil built a projector they called the Bioscop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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