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After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.


Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.

Rüdiger Vogler
Wilhelm

Hans Christian Blech
Laertes

Hanna Schygulla
Therese

Nastassja Kinski
Mignon

Peter Kern
Landau

Ivan Desny
Industrialist

Marianne Hoppe
Mother

Lisa Kreuzer
Janine
Adolf Hansen
Conductor

Wim Wenders
Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
Wrong Move is a drama film released in 1975 exploring themes of suicide, based on novel or book, road movie. Directed by Wim Wenders, it stars Rüdiger Vogler, Hans Christian Blech, Hanna Schygulla. Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
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