A Trick of Light

A Trick of the Light (German: Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky) is a 1995 German biographical film directed by Wim Wenders. The film was made with the students of the University of Television and Film Munich and is a combination of docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography to show the birth of cinema in Berlin where Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil built a projector they called the Bioscop.^[1]

A Trick of the Light
German DVD cover
Directed by	Wim Wenders
Written by	Sebastian Andrae Henrick Heckmann Veit Helmer German Kral Barbara Rohm Alina Teodorescu Wim Wenders
Produced by	Veit Helmer Wolfgang Längsfeld Wim Wenders
Starring	Udo Kier Nadine Büttner Christoph Merg Otto Kuhnle Lucie Hürtgent-Skladanowsky
Cinematography	Jürgen Jürges
Edited by	Peter Przygodda
Music by	Laurent Petitgand
Release date	1995 (1995)
Running time	79 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German