Until the End of the World movie storyline. Set in 1999, a woman (Solveig Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the bank money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law (William Hurt), an American who is being chased by the CIA. The charges are false, he claims. They want to confiscate a device his father invented which allows anyone to record their dreams and vision.
On the run from both the bank robbers and the CIA, the couple span the globe, ending up in Australia at his father’s (Max von Sydow) research facility, where they hope to play back the recordings Hurt captured for his blind mother. Set in the futuristic year of 1999, a subplot about a damaged Indian nuclear satellite crashing and causing the end of civilization is a puzzling addition to the film.
Until the End of the World (German: Bis ans Ende der Welt) is a 1991 French-German science fiction drama film by the German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker Michael Almereyda. Wenders, whose career had been distinguished by his mastery of the road movie, had intended this as the Ultimate Road Movie.
Until the End of the World (1991)
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Starring: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Rüdiger Vogler, Ernie Dingo, Jeanne Moreau, Adelle Lutz, Pietro Falcone, Jean-Charles Dumay
Screenplay by: Wim Wenders, Peter Carey
Production Design by: Sally Campbell, Thierry Flamand
Cinematography by: Robby Müller
Film Editing by: Peter Przygodda
Costume Design by: Montserrat Casanova
Set Decoration by: Zé Branco, Tim Ferrier
Art Direction by: Steve Burns, Claudio Carrer, Ian Gracie, Jan Schlubach
Music by: Graeme Revell
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: December 25, 1991
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