The End of Violence
The End of Violence is a 1997 American drama film by the German director Wim Wenders. The film's cast includes Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne, Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Udo Kier, and Loren Dean, among others. It also features a soundtrack marked with the signature sounds of Wenders regulars Jon Hassell, Ry Cooder, and Bono. The film was praised by a select few critics for its cinematography, but performed poorly in the box office. It was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
Film producer Mike Max meditates on the paranoia of fear of attack, in the film industry and life in general, as his wife Paige announces she is leaving him. He receives a document via email from a NASA employee whom he met earlier at a conference. Before opening it, Mike is kidnapped and almost killed, a scene captured by surveillance cameras and witnessed by computer scientist Ray Bering on surveillance footage scene in his laboratory at the Griffith Observatory.
More details
| author | Wim Wenders |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | United States |
| director | Wim Wenders |
| editor | Peter Przygodda |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | capture computer scientist film industry film producer griffith observatory intelligence agent kidnap kill nasa open paranoia surveillance camera surveillance footage |
| musicBy | Ry Cooder |
| producer | Deepak Nayar Nicholas Klein Wim Wenders |
| productionCompany | Ciby 2000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Road Movies Filmproduktion |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| recordedAt | Santa Monica |
| theme | independent security and surveillance |