The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

1975, 1h 41min -

Adapted from a novel by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, Wim Wenders’s first theatrical feature crosses Hitchcock with Kafka for an arresting study of existential ennui, violence, and the lure of American culture in postwar Europe. After he is ejected from a game in Vienna, unsettlingly disaffected soccer goalie Joseph Bloch (Arthur Brauss) wanders aimlessly through the city, seemingly detached from everything around him—until an encounter with a cinema cashier (Erika Pluhar) takes a dark turn. Working with cinematographer Robby Müller and editor Peter Przygodda, Wenders assembled a collaborative team that would define his work for years. Show more

"The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" — movie produced in Germany and Austria and released in 1975. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.5 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 41min. "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Click on a playlink to watch it now!