Overview

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.

Genres

Cast

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

Wim Wenders

Man in Dining Car (uncredited)