Lightning Over Water (1980)
Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water
91 min
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.
- Release date
- May 13, 1980
- Country of origin
- United States, Sweden, Germany
Cast
- Gerry Bamman as Self
- Ronee Blakley as Self
- Pierre Cottrell as Self
- Stefan Czapsky as Self
- Mitch Dubin as Self
- Tom Farrell as Self
- Becky Johnston as Self
- Tom Kaufman as Self
- Pat Kirck as Self
- Edward Lachman as Self
Crew
- Nicholas Ray · Director
- Wim Wenders · Director
- Nicholas Ray · Writer
- Wim Wenders · Writer
- Pierre Cottrell · Producer
- Renée Gundelach · Producer
- Chris Sievernich · Producer
- Wim Wenders · Producer
- Ronee Blakley · Composer
- Edward Lachman · Cinematographer
- Martin Schäfer · Cinematographer
- Peter Przygodda · Editor
- Wim Wenders · Editor