A Trick of Light

Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky, feature film, 1995

DIRECTED BY: Wim Wenders

A Trick of Light

Synopsis:
Wim Wenders made this film with students of the Film Academy in Munich. It is a story about the birth of film in Berlin. The Skladanowsky brothers, Max and Emil, made a film projector that they called Bioskop. The film starts about a hundred years ago with the story about the brothers and ends in 1995 with Max’s daughter Lucie who reminisces about her father and the first years of film.