A Trick of Light

A Trick of the Light
German DVD cover
Directed byWim Wenders
Written by
  • Sebastian Andrae
  • Henrick Heckmann
  • Veit Helmer
  • German Kral
  • Barbara Rohm
  • Alina Teodorescu
  • Wim Wenders
Produced by
  • Veit Helmer
  • Wolfgang Längsfeld
  • Wim Wenders
Starring
  • Udo Kier
  • Nadine Büttner
  • Christoph Merg
  • Otto Kuhnle
  • Lucie Hürtgent-Skladanowsky
CinematographyJürgen Jürges
Edited byPeter Przygodda
Music byLaurent Petitgand
Release date
  • 1995 (1995)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

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.