Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5017239110917
Format: Colour, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, PAL
Label: Entertainment in Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalogFrenchOriginal LanguageAnalogGermanOriginal LanguageAnalogItalianOriginal LanguageAnalogJapaneseOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Entertainment in Video
Release Date: April 05, 1993
Running Time: 151 minutes
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1991

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Shot on location in numerous countries, this ambitious Wim Wenders fantasy takes Sam Neill, Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt and a ragtag group in pursuit around the world and back again. Though set in 1999 under the shadow of impending disaster as a wobbly nuclear satellite threatens to Chernobyl the planet, the leisurely gait of their worldwide escapades has a distinctly 1940s-era decadence. The ultimate object of their quest is a machine that records visual information from one person and reconstructs it in the brains of others--granting the miraculous power of sight to the blind for one thing, but even more mystically, enabling a person's dreams to be recorded. When the film seeks resolutions on the most intimate questions of the human soul which dovetail with the possibility of a destroyed world, the film is hampered by the VHS running time, which subtracts several hours from other versions. But numerous joys, not least among them Jeanne Moreau and Max von Sydow as Hurt's parents, inhabit this thought-provoking film. --Alan E. Rapp, Amazon.com




Rating: - 3-disc German DVD
This is the one to get (with a suitcase on the cover). All the others are a mess to a greater or lesser extent. This is the only decent long cut available and it isn't even expensive! A huge film spread across three discs, it's obviously one for a long winter evening...

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Rating: - My favourite film
For such a long movie, it's nice that you can sum up the plot in a single sentence:

'It's about a camera that takes pictures that blind people can see.'

Not the best film ever made (that's surely Ozu's 'Tokyo Story'), 'Until the End of the World' is simply my favourite. This is the full 3 DVD version, lasting well over 4 hours. Only the Italian release, with about 20 minutes of deleted scenes, is longer. My favourite film, in spite of its weaknesses: I mean, hown did ... Read More

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Rating: - The Obsessive Dream
At its core, this is a film about the sometimes-destructive nature of obsession - the central character's obsession with the object of her desire, her former lover's obsession with quantifying their relationship, the obsession of bounty hunters with their quarry, the obsession of a son's desperate hope for his father's approval and that father's obsession with cutting-edge science taking precedence over any interpersonal considerations - with the exception of his obsessive love for his wife. This ... Read More

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Rating: - Ground Breaking Work
I am not going to repeat a lot of what has been said elsewhere on the reviews posted before me but this is a vital and important film. I got the full 5 hour version (released in Italy originally) which makes the whole thing much more cohesive. The main flaw is the first half an hour which should have been totally re-shot, as it's messy and the acting falls below what is passable and doesn't represent the beauty and mesmerising power of the rest of the film.

I would have given it 5 stars ... Read More

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Rating: - Expected better
Given the Director and William Hurt in the lead added to a apocalyptic theme I was expecting better. The plot was slow and pretentious and I was sorely disappointed with the last half hour or so. The wife went off to bed half way through but I slogged it out to the end expecting it to pick up - it didn't. I really don't know what possessed them - as European experiences go, I've had more enjoyable times in Brussels station waiting for the Eurostar. Recommended for folk that enjoyed the pace and plot ... Read More

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