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Brief synopsis, cast & crew, volker schlöndorff, sam shepard, julie delpy, barbara sukowa, dieter kirchlechner, technical specs.

Set in 1957, the story of a middle-aged American engineer who falls in love with a young European woman, who happens to be his daughter from a woman he abandoned 20 years earlier while a student in Switzerland.

Deborra-lee Furness

August zirner, thomas heinze, peter berling, lorna farrar, kathleen matiezen, charles hayward, james mathews, perla walter, roland dechandenay, jacques martial, brigitte catillon, philippe morier-genoud, erica lawson, kay albrecht, voula alexopoulou, leta andreadi, douglas b arnold, pepeta arvaniti, giorgios arvanitis, giuseppe auriemma, cherie baker, barbara baum, andreas biegler, will bright, gerry butler, gary carpenter, christophe cheysson, hilary cousins, tim d'arcy, michalis daskalakis, friedrich dosch, gilbert duhalde, kate eisemann, edwin erfmann, alexander v eschwege, hannelore faber, bruna finocchi, tom fleischman, thierry francois, eckart goebel, klaus hellwig, benedikt herforth, dagmar hirtz, karl heinz hofman, michael jacobi, sandy jensen, eberhard junkersdorf, christos karakepelis, vassilis katsoufis, jeffrey kiehlbauch, hannah clair klein, robert l knott, maria kontodima, xenophon kotsaftis, cecil kramer, michael kranz, karl kresling, kurt w krusche, frederque lauzier, artemis leontidou, robert leveen, pierre lhomme, patrick lhuillier, panayotis mauraganis, stan mcclain, karen altman morgenstern, stanley myers, doxi nikolaidou, panayotis nikolaros, arno ortmair, michael otto, maria patheniadou, nicos perakis, carl perkins, sophie ravard, antonis remoundos, antonella russo, itala scandariato, robin schneider, rolfe schneider, sabine schroth, marianne schulz, bodo scriba, raphael serrail, roee sharon, alan snelling, daniela stibitz, michele therese tollemer, andrea tonti, rosalba dibartolo tonti, david topor, athina tseregof, anesa tzirou, katerina varhtaletou, rudy wurlitzer, michael zens, miscellaneous notes.

Nominated for the 1991 Felix Award for Actress of the Year, Supporting Actress of the Year and European Film of the Year by the European Cinema Society.

Released in United States 1991

Released in United States February 28, 1992

Released in United States November 1991

Released in United States on Video July 2, 1992

Released in United States September 1991

Released in United States Winter January 31, 1992

Shown at American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica February 28 - March 8, 1991.

Shown at London Film Festival November 6-21, 1991.

Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival September 27 - October 6, 1991.

Shown at Toronto Festival of Festivals (Contemporary World Cinema) September 5-14, 1991.

Produced in association with Stefi 2/Hellas Video Greece.

Began shooting March 12, 1990.

Completed shooting June 14, 1990.

Max Frisch was involved in the project until his death from cancer in April 1991.

Released in United States 1991 (Shown at American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica February 28 - March 8, 1991.)

Released in United States 1991 (Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival September 27 - October 6, 1991.)

Released in United States February 28, 1992 (Los Angeles)

Released in United States September 1991 (Shown at Toronto Festival of Festivals (Contemporary World Cinema) September 5-14, 1991.)

Released in United States November 1991 (Shown at London Film Festival November 6-21, 1991.)

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• Director: Volker Schlöndorff
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Voyager starts in mystery, and intrigues us. It continues with intelligence, and absorbs us. And then it ends in melodrama, and disappoints us.

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"Voyager" starts in mystery, and intrigues us. It continues with intelligence, and absorbs us. And then it ends in melodrama, and disappoints us - not least because characters as smart as these should be able to solve the movie's central question long before they do.

The film, set in the 1950s, stars Sam Shepard , very dry and analytical, as an engineer who stands aside from everything, as if detached from life itself. Once it was not so with him. Once he was in love. That was long ago. Now, on board an airplane, he is faced with a situation many of us have fantasized: The plane is going to crash, and he has plenty of time to think about it. He does. He does not panic, and indeed seems absorbed in all of the mechanics of the approaching disaster.

When he is spared, he seems detached from that, too. But through a coincidence he has met a man on the plane who can give him news about a friend from his past, and the news sets him off on an odyssey through strange places to find a woman he did not know was still alive, the woman he once loved. Along the way on this journey, aboard a ship, he meets a young woman ( Julie Delpy ), and feels an instinctive closeness to her. The feeling is returned, up to a point.

They decide to travel together through southern Europe, sharing a car, he playing the mentor role as they visit the ruins and remnants of earlier civilizations. Eventually he learns something we have been half-expecting all along, the name of the young woman's mother. She is the woman who was once his lover. Does that make the girl . . .

Don't be in a hurry to ask. The movie isn't. And in a way the possibility of incest is the least interesting thing about this movie, even though the screenplay treats it as the most important.

That wise critic Stanley Kauffmann, of the New Republic, observes about incest that it makes an unsatisfactory topic for fiction, because we do not know how to feel about it. Of course we are against forced incest - child abuse and so on. But what about accidental incest, in which the parties discover too late what their real relationship is? Does that fascinate us? Not much, because almost by definition it's of interest only to the involved parties. They can be expected to have strong feelings, but we don't share them because, when you get right down to it, we're not related to them.

"Voyager," based on the novel Homo Faber by Max Frisch, has been directed by Volker Schlondorff (" The Tin Drum ") as if he, too, is more interested in what the characters say than in how they're related. He makes the Shepard character into a kind of man not often seen in the movies, a literate engineer, given to dispassionate analysis. The daughter is pretty and smart and, like many young women, too quick to believe romantic love is an answer to anything.

Her mother, played by the gifted Polish actress Barbara Sukowa , has great reason to be angry with Shepard because of what happened long ago, but (as we can see in flashback) she should also be angry at the conventions of the Idiot Plot syndrome, which prevented both her and Shepard from saying absolutely obvious things that would have greatly lessened their pain.

The end of "Voyager" does not leave us with very much. The film follows its melodramatic compulsion right into oblivion, like a lemming.

Thinking back, we realize we've met some interesting people and heard some good talk, and that it's shame all those contrived plot points about incest got in the way of what was otherwise a perfectly stimulating relationship. This is a movie that is good in spite of what it thinks it's about.

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Directed by Volker Schlöndorff

Destiny is the most powerful coincidence of all.

Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.

Sam Shepard Julie Delpy Barbara Sukowa Traci Lind Deborra-Lee Furness Dieter Kirchlechner August Zirner Thomas Heinze Bill Dunn Peter Berling Lorna Farrar Kathleen Matiezen Lou Cutell Charley Hayward Wynn Irwin James Mathers Perla Walter Roland De Chandenay Jacques Martial Brigitte Catillon Philippe Morier-Genoud Erica Lawson Johnny Vavouras

Director Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Producers Producers

Eberhard Junkersdorf Bodo Scriba

Writers Writers

Volker Schlöndorff Rudy Wurlitzer James Ragan

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Pat Golden Sabine Schroth

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Dagmar Hirtz

Cinematography Cinematography

Pierre Lhomme Giorgos Arvanitis

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Vasilis Katsoufis Klaus Hellwig

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Nikos Perakis

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Benedikt Herforth

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Stanley Myers

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Barbara Baum

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Review by Richard Chandler ★★★ 4

"What's providence got to do with it?"

With his twenty-year marriage to fellow director Margarethe von Trotta on life support, the highly international Volker Schlöndorff felt moved to adapt Max Frisch's psychosexual novel Homo Faber (retitled Voyager for stateside audiences largely unfamiliar with the Swiss author), wherein a hazardous crash landing provokes an inconceivable chain of coincidences that unsettle the smugly rationalistic beliefs of misogynistic, dispassionate engineer Walter Faber (Sam Shepard). Walter is the sort that brags about not reading fiction and how he enjoys "waking up and not having to explain myself to a woman"—that is to say an insufferable prick who hides behind a principle of forthrightness.

Fleeing an unwanted girlfriend in New York, Walter embarks on an…

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Beim Mediatheken durchsuchen, bin ich bei 3Sat noch auf diesen scheinbar interessanten Stoff gestoßen. Doch was soll ich sagen, dass stellt sich dann doch als sehr mieser Film heraus. Vielleicht ist die Wertung am Ende auch zu kritisch. Aber der Film war schon ein echtes Ärgernis für mich.

Der Ingenieur Walter Faber (Sam Shepard) hat eine sachliche Einstellung zum Leben. Als Realist hält er nicht viel von Zufall und Schicksalsfügung. Diese Einstellung sollte jedoch auf seiner Reise, die uns Max Frisch lesen und…

Review by munta ★★★★

Classic julie delpy always flirting with the passengers

Review by hangezoeswife ★★½

faber ist MEIN patrick bateman

Review by dudewithbacon ★★★

Voyager is an odd film, one minute it feels off, the next its good...then its anything but. What starts as a bit of a slag, turns into a fairly competent romance, and then devastates with its twist, which sadly, lead to a series of bad decisions that tarnished the third act in an otherwise perfectly watchable film. It isn't to say the movie becomes unwatchable because of it, its just borderline soap-opera level ridiculous, and makes the whole experience feel somewhat cheap.

Voyager tells the story of Walter Faber, an engineer who travels the world doing business lectures. He's very matter of fact, dry, humorless, and shuns anything that doesn't exist within the more tangible realms of reality, opting to…

Review by 🌙 audrey 🌙 ★★★★★

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I honestly really loved this movie and wasn't expecting to at all. I feel like the reviews on here water down the message of the film and don't fully capture the tone towards its subject matter.

The '50s period detail was excellent and I liked that it was more subtle but always present. The inclusion of the Super 8 footage was such a clever creative choice. Loved the locations - the museums in Paris and the Grecian landscapes were stunning and had a mystifying quality that added to the dream-like effect.

Sam Shepard was wonderful as the lead, I wish I could fully describe his presence. He had this wall up that slowly started to…

Review by TecatePapi ★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

This is one of those movies you watch where you start to remember there are actors you like and you know they're working somewhere but you just don't know where but you know they're in things. This is that thing. Sam Shepard is the actor.

The plot is bizarre. The characters are almost offensively pompous. A good chunk of this movie takes place on a cruise ship. I guess Sabeth needed to develop Stockholm Syndrome to make this plot work.

There's a conversation where Sabeth (Julie Delpy) talks about existentialism and asks, "Have you ever heard of Camus?" like a shitty arts student who averages a B. The ones who do the readings and go to all the classes but…

Review by Olivia Harrison

worst case scenario

Review by cinematisch ★★½

Very mediocre due to its limited possibilities through the literary basis, or how my teacher would say: der is sowas von genial!

Review by Fedor Brockmann ★★½

Book adaptations like these are the reason why people say that books are always better than their cinematic counterparts. A film has to use its own medium to justify its existence.

Review by toothpickmoe ★★½

A sweeping life epic centered around Sam Shepard’s ability to emote is a risky endeavor, and that’s not even the biggest dice roll this film takes. Still, he’s a compelling looking guy, and his sort of never ending cavalcade of trysts is also a central part of the story. There are definitely moments here which shine, and it’s a beautifully realized film in its look most often, but Shepard just isn’t a strong enough actor to really sell the highs and lows of Faber’s life. Delpy is, as always, a translucent and ethereal presence; shimmering in and out of her scenes with the dreamy quality that no doubt got her this role. Though casting one of the best-known French actresses to play a German is a choice.

Review by Jan ★★★ 1

Another bad adaptation, that does everything possible to not live up to the book's spirit. PS: Julie Delphy kinda reminds me of Jessica Chastain

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