Lightning Over Water
1980, English. Directed by Nicholas Ray & Wim Wenders.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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Lightning Over Water is streaming on Criterion Channel in India.
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- Released
- 1 October 1980
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders
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Lightning Over Water runs 91 minutes (1h 31m).
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Who directed Lightning Over Water?
Lightning Over Water (1980) was directed by Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders and stars Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray, Susan Ray.