History Film / UntilTheEndOfTheWorld

** Electronics giant Sony allowed several of its prototypes to be used in the film.

Various feature-length versions of the film exist, but according to Wenders one hasn't really seen the film unless one has watched the three-part, nearly five-hour cut known as "The Trilogy". Shot on four different continents, the film saw its cast and crew expand as production moved from one location to another.

* OedipusComplex: It's easy to interpret Trevor [=McPhee=]/Sam Farber as having a bad case of this.

* CuffsOffRubWrists: Claire does this in Part 2, although her cuffs haven't actually been taken off - just the door to which she was handcuffed.

* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture: The wallet-sized handheld computers everyone carried around are very prescient; Claire's futuristic binocular camera is all smooth curves. However, some technology in the film (like Dr. Farber's camera and the computers in his lab) look positively 1980's, and, other technology like handheld videophones was given a strange, neo-classical look. In one scene a character has a conversation on a hotel room videophone that looks like a miniature Greco-Roman column with a screen on top.

''Until the End of the World'' is a 1991 film by director Creator/WimWenders, starring Solveig Dommartin, Creator/WilliamHurt and Creator/MaxVonSydow. It was intended as "the ultimate road movie." It follows the story of a runaway French party girl named Claire who gets mixed up with a couple of bank robbers and the estranged fugitive son of a brilliant scientist, and it takes place against the [[JustBeforeTheEnd backdrop of an impending nuclear catastrophe]] of an out of control satellite threatening to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end civilization as we know it]] late [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the year 1999]].

Various feature length versions of the film exist, but according to Wenders one has not really seen the film unless one has watched the 3-part, almost five-hour cut, also known as "The Trilogy." It was filmed on four different continents, and the cast and crew grew as production moved from country to country.

Various feature length versions of the film exist, but according to Wenders one has not really seen the film unless one has watched the 3-part, 5.5 hour cut, also known as "The Trilogy." It was filmed on four different continents, and the cast and crew grew as production moved from country to country.

* LandDownunder: The latter half of Part II and most of Part III.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: in the year 1999, we will have talking GPS in our cars, and carry sophisticated wallet-sized computers in our pockets, but everyone still uses public [[VideoPhone (video) phones]]. The setting was handled very effectively though, and the film still holds up well to modern viewers.
** Electronics giant Sony allowed several of its prototypes to be used in the film.

One other notable aspect of the film is its soundtrack, featuring an all-star ensemble of various artists such as Music/DepecheMode, Music/ElvisCostello, Music/{{REM}}, and Music/{{U2}}, among others. Most infamously, the soundtrack includes "Sax and Violins", the final song written and released by Music/TalkingHeads prior to their breakup around the time of the film's release.

* FutureMusic: extremely well done and tasteful. In 1991 the director approached artists like Depeche Mode, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and others, and asked them to produce music for his film like the music they thought they would be making in the year 1999, as the world is due to end.

''Until the End of the World'' is a 1991 film by director Wim Wenders, starring Solveig Dommartin, Creator/WilliamHurt and Creator/MaxVonSydow. It was intended as "the ultimate road movie." It follows the story of a runaway French party girl named Claire who gets mixed up with a couple of bank robbers and the estranged fugitive son of a brilliant scientist, and it takes place against the [[JustBeforeTheEnd backdrop of an impending nuclear catastrophe]] of an out of control satellite threatening to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end civilization as we know it]] late [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the year 1999]].

-> ''[[ApocalypseHow "1999 was the year the Indian nuclear satellite went out of control. No one knew where it would land. It soared above the ozone layer like a lethal bird of prey."]]''

* HeyItsThatGuy: Tom Waits appears first as himself and later as a man sleeping on an airport bench.

* NoExportForYou: The director's cut has never been released in North America (due to Warner Bros. refusing to license the rights to another company). Anchor Bay was set to release this version in 2005 (as part of a Wim Wenders set) but said issues led to the release being canceled.
* OneSceneWonder: Tom Farrell, in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAk4zjB7N8&feature=related this scene]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIdjfvjqkkk&NR=1 this one]].

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Partially averted, as GPS is common in automobiles, and computers (from desktops and laptops to handheld microcomputers the size of a wallet), digital technology is shown to connect people all over the world. However, everybody still uses public telephones (granted they take credit cards and have a video screen, and there is also a system called "video fax"), and nobody in the movie seems to own a cell phone.
** Another amusing detail in the movie is what media replaces audio cassette tapes in the year 1999. Instead of [=CDs=] or MP3 players, music files are stored on a flat wallet-sized card with a magnetic strip.

!!''UntilTheEndOfTheWorld: The Trilogy'' features the following tropes:

* TheDeadliestMushroom: For 2/3 of the trilogy, everyone's waiting for it to happen.

* RoadMovie: Wim Wenders, considered the "master of the road movie," intended this to be the ultimate example.

''Until the End of the World'' is a 1991 film by director Wim Wenders, starring Solveig Dommartin, Creator/WilliamHurt and Max Von Sydow. It was intended as "the ultimate road movie." It follows the story of a runaway French party girl named Claire who gets mixed up with a couple of bank robbers and the estranged fugitive son of a brilliant scientist, and it takes place against the [[JustBeforeTheEnd backdrop of an impending nuclear catastrophe]] of an out of control satellite threatening to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end civilization as we know it]] late [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the year 1999]].

'''''Until the End of the World''''' is a 1991 film by director Wim Wenders, starring Solveig Dommartin, WilliamHurt and Max Von Sydow. It was intended as "the ultimate road movie." It follows the story of a runaway French party girl named Claire who gets mixed up with a couple of bank robbers and the estranged fugitive son of a brilliant scientist, and it takes place against the [[JustBeforeTheEnd backdrop of an impending nuclear catastrophe]] of an out of control satellite threatening to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end civilization as we know it]] late [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the year 1999]].

'''''Until the End of the World''''' is a 1991 film by director Wim Wenders, starring Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt and Max Von Sydow. It was intended as "the ultimate road movie." It follows the story of a runaway French party girl named Claire who gets mixed up with a couple of bank robbers and the estranged fugitive son of a brilliant scientist, and it takes place against the [[JustBeforeTheEnd backdrop of an impending nuclear catastrophe]] of an out of control satellite threatening to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end civilization as we know it]] late [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the year 1999]].

''UntilTheEndOfTheWorld'' is a 1991 film by director Wim Wenders, starring Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt and Max Von Sydow. It was intended as "the ultimate road movie." It follows the story of a runaway French party girl named Claire who gets mixed up with a couple of bank robbers and the estranged fugitive son of a brilliant scientist, and it takes place against the [[JustBeforeTheEnd backdrop of an impending nuclear catastrophe]] of an out of control satellite threatening to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end civilization as we know it]] late [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the year 1999]].