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
Wilhelm
Hans Christian Blech
Laertes
Hanna Schygulla
Therese
Nastassja Kinski
Mignon
Peter Kern
Landau
Ivan Desny
Industrialist
Marianne Hoppe
Mother
Lisa Kreuzer
Janine
Adolf Hansen
Conductor
Wim Wenders
Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
