Lightning Over Water

Lightning Over Water — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 1, 1980
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Nicholas Ray

Lightning Over Water — Cast

Wim Wenders Self Nicholas Ray Self

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Susan Ray Self Tom Farrell Self Ronee Blakley Self Gerry Bamman Self

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Pierre Cottrell Self Stefan Czapsky Self