Lightning Over Water
6.7
91 minutes
10/1/1980
Overview
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 sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.
Cast List
Wim Wenders
as Self
Nicholas Ray
as Self
Susan Ray
as Self
Tom Farrell
as Self
Ronee Blakley
as Self
Gerry Bamman
as Self
Pierre Cottrell
as Self
Stefan Czapsky
as Self
Mitch Dubin
as Self
Becky Johnston
as Self
Tom Kaufman
as Self
Pat Kirck
as Self
Edward Lachman
as Self
Martin Müller
as Self
Craig Nelson
as Self
Timothy Ray
as Self
Martin Schäfer
as Self
Chris Sievernich
as Self
Jim Jarmusch
as Self (uncredited)
Peter Przygodda
as Self (uncredited)