The End of Violence
Produced in 1997
Film Information
Festival Edition 1998 - Edition 2
Section Panorama
Director Wim Wenders
Country USA/Germany
Duration 122 min
Category Panorama 1998
Producer Road Movies, Ciby 2000
Screenplay Nicholas Klein, based on a story by Nicholas Klein, Wim Wenders
Cast Bill Pullman (Mike Max), Andie MacDowell (Paige Stockard), Gabriel Byrne (Ray Bering), Loren Dean (Doc Block), Traci Lind (Cat), Daniel Benzali (Brice Phelps), K. Todd Freeman (Six), John Diehl (Lowell Lewis)
Genre International Feature Film
Synopsis
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who has grown big, rich, and powerful by making extremely violent and bloody action films. One day he is threatened with the kind of violence that his films are all about. Parallel to this is the story of Ray Bering, a scientist who is commissioned by the FBI to put an end to violence and crime for good, to develop a perfect observatory, a kind of Big Brother. When he becomes aware of its repressive power, he tries to sabotage his invention, but his clients won't tolerate that. Bering and Max are both threatened with death by an invisible opponent. That brings them together.
The End of Violence
1997