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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
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- Writer
- Wim Wenders
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Director
- Nicholas Ray
- Writer
- Nicholas Ray
- Producer
- Chris Sievernich
- Editor
- Peter Przygodda
- Editor
- Wim Wenders
- Producer
- Wim Wenders
- Producer
- Pierre Cottrell
- Director of Photography
- Martin Schäfer
- Director of Photography
- Edward Lachman

Wim Wenders
Nicholas Ray
Tom Farrell
Ronee Blakley
Gerry Bamman
Stefan Czapsky