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Alabama (2000 Light Years) (1969)

Name: Alabama (2000 Light Years)
Director: Wim Wenders
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1969-01-30
Duration: 22 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Werner Schroeter, King Ampaw, Norbert Losch, Paul Lys, Peter Kaiser

IMDb 6.30h 22mCrime Drama

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Plot Summary

"The film starts with a shot of a cassette recorder, and it has a juke box in it. There’s always music in it. When I was asked by some critics at a festival press conference what the film was all about, I said 'it’s about the song All Along The Watchtower, and the film is about what happens and what changes depending on whether the song is sung by Bob Dylan or by Jimi Hendrix.'" Well, both versions of the song appear in the film, and everybody thought I was pretty arrogant to explain the story this way. But the film really is about the difference between the Dylan version of All Along the Watchtower, and the Jimi Hendrix Version. One is at the beginning and one is at the end." – Wim Wenders