See You" by Chris Montez, "Just Like Eddie" by Heinz, and "King of the Road" by Roger Miller. The cost of production was DM 730,800 (then equivalent to US$315,000). The film was financed with a screenplay premium of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of DM 250,000. In his documentary, White Walls director Mike Schlömer shot footage along the inner-German border between Lüneburg and Hof, where Wim Wenders shot footage. It was the first film Wenders made through his new production company Road Movies Produktion. He shot it in black and white because he thought that was "much more realistic and natural than color." Reception In Germany, the Lexicon of International Film wrote that "Wim Wenders' film combines the captivating clarity and epic serenity of a classic Bildungsroman with the mythic qualities of American genre film…Directed in a craftmansly, impeccable style, space itself allows for the unfolding of characters, thoughts and landscapes." Wolf Donner of Die Zeit said that "Motions, sequences of confusingly beautiful and suggestive shots, highly poetic compositions and technical perfection make up the particular charm of this three-hour-long black-and-white film. [...] Scenes shot in a nocturnal mist, in the half-glow of the evening and morning, a profound depth of field, a variety of lenses, iridescent effects in the interaction of filters, natural and artificial light, long shots where entire landscapes seem illuminated: these formal qualities always simultaneously bring out the dual meaning of this itinerancy, the nowhereness of this trip, the between-space outside of ordinary reference to reality. The artisanly virtuosity of "Kings of the Road" will get cinephiles hooked." Film Critic Derek Malcolm ranked Kings of the Road 89 on his list of his 100 favourite movies. Malcolm says that Wenders "achieves a palpable sense of time, place and atmosphere, and of how everybody is affected by their tiny spot in history." It has been compared to Easy Rider and Two-Lane Blacktop and called the ultimate road movie. Richard Combs wrote that "alienation is not really Wenders subject, although his lonely, self-obsessed heroes might suggest as much." The film won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and the Gold Hugo grand prize at the Chicago International Film Festival. Home video Kings of the Road was released in 2008 as a region 2 DVD with English subtitles. It was released in 1987 as a VHS tape. In 2016, The Criterion Collection released the film