A Trick of Light
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| Directed by | Wim Wenders |
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| Cinematography | Jürgen Jürges |
| Edited by | Peter Przygodda |
| Music by | Laurent Petitgand |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
A Trick of the Light (German: Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky "The Skladanowsky brothers") is a 1995 German biographical film directed by Wim Wenders. The film was made with the students of the University of Television and Film Munich and is a combination of docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography to show the birth of cinema in Berlin where Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil built a projector they called the Bioscop.