The Wrong Move

The Wrong Move
DVD cover
Directed byWim Wenders
Screenplay byPeter Handke
Based onWilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
StarringRüdiger Vogler
Hanna Schygulla
Marianne Hoppe
Nastassja Kinski
Hans Christian Blech
Peter Kern
Ivan Desny
Lisa Kreuzer
CinematographyRobby Müller
Edited byPeter Przygodda
Music byJürgen Knieper
Distributed byAxiom Films (UK and Ireland)
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The Wrong Move (German: Falsche Bewegung – "False Movement") is a 1975 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. This was the second part of Wenders' "Road Movie trilogy" which included Alice in the Cities (1974) and Kings of the Road (1976).

With long carefully composed shots characteristic of Wenders' work, the story follows the wanderings of an aspiring young writer, Wilhelm Meister, as he explores his native country, encounters its people and starts defining his vocation. His thoughts are occasionally presented in voice-over. The work is a rough adaption of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1795-96 novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship,[1] an early example of the Bildungsroman[2] or novel of initiation.

  1. ^ Brady, Richard. "Wrong Move". The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  2. ^ Robison, James (1 June 2016). "Wrong Move: Utter Detachment, Utter Truth". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 9 June 2016.