Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
Rüdiger Vogler
as Wilhelm
Hans Christian Blech
as Laertes
Hanna Schygulla
as Therese
Nastassja Kinski
as Mignon
Peter Kern
as Landau
Ivan Desny
as Industrialist
Marianne Hoppe
as Mother
Lisa Kreuzer
as Janine
Adolf Hansen
as Conductor
Wim Wenders
as Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
