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Lisbon Story

1994

A sound engineer travels to Lisbon to help a filmmaker friend finish a movie, only to find him vanished, and wanders the luminous city recording its sounds while awaiting his return. Wim Wenders's tender love letter to Lisbon and to cinema.

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Wim Wenders's German essay film about recording and seeing Lisbon.

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