Voyager (film)
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Voyager (German: Homo Faber) is a 1991 English-language drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, and Barbara Sukowa. Adapted by screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer from the 1957 novel Homo Faber by Max Frisch, the film is about a successful engineer traveling throughout Europe and the Americas whose world view based on logic, probability, and technology is challenged when he falls victim to fate, or a series of incredible coincidences.[2]
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Directed by | Volker Schlöndorff |
Screenplay by | Rudy Wurlitzer |
Based on | Homo Faber by Max Frisch |
Produced by | Eberhard Junkersdorf |
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Narrated by | Sam Shepard |
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Edited by | Dagmar Hirtz |
Music by | Stanley Myers |
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Distributed by | Castle Hill Productions (US) |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
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Language | English |
Box office | $516,517 (US)[1] |
Voyager won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Production (Eberhard Junkersdorf), the German Film Award for Shaping of a Feature Film, and the Guild of German Art House Cinemas Award for Best German Film. It was also nominated for three European Film Awards for Best Film, Best Actress (Julie Delpy), and Best Supporting Actress (Barbara Sukowa), as well as a German Film Award for Outstanding Feature Film.[3]