police station and has new leads: during her interview, she remembered that her granny's name is Krüger and the police had told her that she lives in the Ruhr area. The two begin to bond as they continue their search, the only clue being a photograph of the grandmother's house, with no house number and no one in the shot. The search ends when they find the house, but the people living there now don't know Alice's grandmother. With no solution in sight, they go swimming, releasing their frustration by playfully shouting insults at each other. Now being virtually broke, he decides to go to his parents who live across the Rhine. While on the ferry, a policeman spots them and informs Philip that the grandmother and Lisa have been found. The policeman puts Alice on a train to Munich, where Lisa has told them she'll meet her daughter. Philip has no money for a ticket, so Alice gives him the 100-dollar bill from her secret pocket. Traveling together on the train to Munich, she asks him what he will do there. He says: "I'll finish this story." They lean out of the window, which we then see from outside the train. The camera zooms out to take in more and more of the landscape, until the train disappears from view. Cast Rüdiger Vogler as Philip Winter Yella Rottländer as Alice Lisa Kreuzer as Lisa, Alice's mother Edda Köchl as Angela, friend in New York Ernest Boehm as Publisher Sam Presti as Car dealer Lois Moran as Airport attendant Didi Petrikat as Friend in Frankfurt Hans Hirschmüller as Police officer Sibylle Baier as The Woman Chuck Berry (uncredited) as himself Wim Wenders (uncredited) as the Man by Jukebox Production According to Wenders, Alice in the Cities, his fourth feature-length film, came at a major turning point when he was deciding whether to remain a filmmaker. He felt that his first two features were too heavily indebted to John Cassavetes and Alfred Hitchcock, while his third was an ill-advised adaptation of The Scarlet Letter. Alice in the Cities was a conscious attempt to make something only he could do. The scenario of a young girl and a writer thrown together was inspired by his long-time collaborator Peter Handke's experience as a single parent. The influence of Handke's 1972 novel Short Letter, Long Farewell, also featuring an alienated German-speaker travelling across the