1999: While Earth is threatened by an out-of-control nuclear satellite, the young Frenchwoman Claire Tourneur falls in love with the stranger Trevor McPhee, who travels around the world on a mysterious mission. With the help of detective Phillip Winter, she follows Trevor's trail, while she herself is watched by her ex-boyfriend, who is still in love with her. But the company is not without danger, because the US secret service is also hot on Trevor's heels to get his father's incredible invention. (2 Blu-rays)
Frustrated by the "Reader's Digest" of his film, which distributors forced on him, Wenders produced a "Director's Cut" two years after the film's release, which in its length of 4 1/2 hours does justice to his intentions and the epic story. Until the End of the World is considered one of Wenders' most ambitious film projects. The preparations for the film themselves took almost a decade.