Lightning Over Water
Documentary · 91 min · English · 1980
Directed by Nicholas Ray
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 sa…
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- Catalogued entity (metadata)
- Basis-Film-Verleih GmbH
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Catalogued
- 2026-10-06
- Registry ID
- MRR-1980-FLM-924377
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