The State of Things (German: Der Stand der Dinge) is a 1982 road movie film directed by Wim Wenders. It tells the story of a film crew stuck in Portugal after the production runs out of film stock and money. The director travels to Los Angeles in search of his missing producer.
A film crew in Portugal shoots a black-and-white science fiction film about the survivors on a post-apocalyptic Earth, titled The Survivors. The shooting stops when the production runs out of film stock and money. In an abandoned hotel, the crew waits for money to arrive or a sign from vanished producer Gordon.
As they grow restless and bored, the film depicts some of their philosophical thoughts and emotional reactions. Director Friedrich Munro finally sets off to find Gordon in Los Angeles. Gordon hides in a mobile home because of money he owes to the Mafia.
The film emerged during the production of Wenders' 1981 Hammett for Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola interrupted the shooting to have the screenplay re-written. Wenders returned to Europe for an intermediate film project, which was not realized in the end. He then went to Portugal to help out director Raúl Ruiz with film stock during the making of his film The Territory (1981). Wenders hired much of the cast and crew to make The State of Things, including lead cinematographerHenri Alekan, the noted photographer of Jean Cocteau's 1946 motion picture Beauty and the Beast. After completing the filming in Portugal, Wenders flew to Los Angeles to shoot the final scenes before continuing work on Hammett.[1]
The soundtrack includes original music from Jürgen Knieper, as well as tracks from Joe Ely, X and The Del-Byzanteens. Jim Jarmusch was a then member of The Del-Byzanteens which often leads to the misinformation that Jarmusch co-wrote the music score. Leftover film stock from The State of Things was later used on the first third of Jarmusch's 1984 black-and-white film Stranger Than Paradise.
Although the film The Survivors, which the crew is shooting during the opening of The State of Things, was repeatedly called a remake of either Day the World Ended or Most Dangerous Man Alive by reviewers and encyclopaedia,[2][3] it bears no close resemblance to either except for the post-apocalyptic scenery.
In 1994, Wenders made Lisbon Story, in which the fictitious film director in The State of Things, Friedrich Munro (played again by Bauchau), reappears under the name Friedrich Monroe, having expatriated to Portugal.
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